On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:20:46PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/15/2017 11:56 AM, Jon Turney wrote: >> You can always make an empty tarball called >> texlive-collection-htmlxml-20170515.tar.xz or whatever, and use that for >> SRC_URI. > > Good idea, thanks. But it turns out that there's another problem: cygport > won't actually create an empty binary tarball in this situation. > > The relevant code is in pkg_pkg.cygpart around lines 149--163, especially > this part: > > elif (( pkg_count == 1 )) > then > pkg_contents="*" > else > pkg_contents= > > We get here if PKG_CONTENTS is unset or empty. (There's actually no test to > see if it's set but empty.) In the situation under discussion, this results > in pkg_contents="*" followed by a tar error. > > Yaakov, shouldn't the user be allowed to explicitly set PKG_CONTENTS empty > and have cygport honor that, at least for obsolete packages?
I've used the attached files to create an empty, dependencies-only package. szgyg
NAME="dependencies"
VERSION="0"
RELEASE="0"
SUMMARY="dependencies (Metapackage)"
CATEGORY="Devel"
REQUIRES="" # put stuff here
####################
SRC_URI="empty.tar.gz"
SRC_DIR="empty"
KEEPDIRS="/usr"
src_compile() { : ; }
src_install() { : ; }
empty.tar.gz
Description: application/tar-gz
