On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:00:32PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 15 22:40, JonY wrote: >> On 11/15/2012 22:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, is there some sort of staging area? Or do I go in and upload the >> >> tarballs directly? >> > >> > You can use the staging area at /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/cygwin/release >> > It's used by the get-cygwin-package script as well. >> > >> >> It will push it to the main area after a few hours? > >It depends. If you use the get-cygwin-package script it will (baring >network or script problems) do the entire job.
Right, but obviously it pays to check your work after letting get-cygwin-package do things since it still has some kinks. >If you upload to the staging area manually, you also have to move >your stuff over manually, using cpio -p, for instance. I usually use cp -a --link . ~release/whereever . Then remove the original directory. cgf
