Hi Brian, Vadim,
On Wed, 6 Aug 2025, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2025-08-06 08:07, Vadim (vadcx) via Cygwin-apps wrote:
From: "Vadim (vadcx)" <[email protected]>
I couldn't figure out how to build cygutils and got confused along
the way, where the repository is supposed to be and how maintainer's
patches should be applied.
Start with the package source summary page:
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygutils-src.html
to get to the packaging repo:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/cygutils/
which you can clone from the https URI there;
although there is still a historical cygwin-apps repo also:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/cygutils/
but chere has no source summary page, just package:
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/chere.html
so the source package cygports there should be your start point, as there
does not appear to be any packaging repo pushed as yet.
The apps repos maintainer (Jon or alternate) can create one with available
history.
Patches must apply cleanly against the HEAD of main/master or equivalent.
You may need to bump versions
Speaking from memory because I haven't checked yet, I believe the
packaging repo still refers to Charles Wilson's last release. I have not
kept that repo (the one under Cygwin.com/cgit) in sync with the updates I
have made in the years since.
Vadim, Brian's text above is how it's supposed to work, and how it works
for most if not all other Cygwin packages. I will be converging cygutils
to this standard over time, but not soon.
Nevertheless, I have seen your patch posts and will respond to them
shortly. They will result in an updated cygutils package in due time.
Apologies for any confusion,
..mark
