On 5/15/2017 12:51 PM, szgyg wrote:
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.
Yes, that works around the problem by not actually creating an empty
binary tarball. But I still think cygport should allow the creation of
an empty binary tarball by a set but empty PKG_CONTENTS.
Ken
