On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:18:51AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'm not sure what you're asking. sources.redhat.com is still going to >> be the main repository for all of the cygwin distribution and mirrors >> will be downloading from sources.redhat.com. >> >> So, you'll still need to have your package approved and uploaded to >> sources.redhat.com if you want the package to be part of the >> distribution. >> >> I can't see how that could possibly change. We can't rely on other >> systems to be part of the official distribution. > >Chris, we were discussing the (not yet available) new features of setup, >where setup.ini from DIFFERENT sources could be merged into a single list. >Since you can ALSO add your own download list (by manually typing in a >different location), the obvious extension is: > >use download sites: > ftp://favorite.cygwin.mirror/ > ftp://my.local.mirror/ > >where my.local.mirror contains a NON-cygwin "sanctioned" package. Such >as, for instance, pre-submission versions of libtool, or JASSP Emacs, or >whatever...
Right. This kind of thing would never show up in a sources.redhat.com setup.hint file, though. Wasn't that the question? setup.hint is a file that is used by sources.redhat.com for producing a setup.ini package. A user doesn't necessarily have to use this mechanism and I don't see any reason to update 'upset' to accomodate URLs. If a user wants to use setup.exe, then they can just update setup.ini by hand or develop their own mechanism for keeping it up-to-date. In addition to this being a nifty feature, I believe that part of the reason for this requirement was that I need this functionality internally at Red Hat. Even I wasn't planning on using 'upset'/setup.hint to accomodate this. cgf