Re: cygport: allow setting prev:, curr:, and test: in autogenerated setup.hint

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun  4 11:51, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > It seems you've re-invented something that David Rothenberger has
> > implemented before in a slightly different way:
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/26034
> > 
> > It's also integrated in my patched-up version of cygport here:
> > 
> > git://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git
> > 
> > FWIW, I've been using Dave's patch a few times and it seems slightly
> > less verbose than what you've got.
> 
> OK.  Sure, VERSIONS="curr:1.7.3.0-2 test:2.0.0-b8-1" also works, and it has the
> advantage of not baking in the current 3-version prev/curr/test setup quite so
> much. OTOH setting PREV, CURR and TEST feels a little more natural to me with
> the current 3-version setup.
> 
> Either way would be fine with me, as long as I have a way of automatically
> setting the versions in the cygport file, instead of having to manually edit
> setup.hint after the build.

Good idea.  I was wondering the same while pushing lots of Cygwin test
releases lately.


Corinna

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