On 2025-11-27 07:03, Jon Turney wrote:
On 26/11/2025 12:47, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Do not remember anything about changes to calm stashing source packages under
$MIRROR/src/release/$PKG/... which appears to have changed starting about
2025-11-09 with a couple (xhost, ninja) in 07/July, then libargp, ruby-cairo,
curl (source package previous release on curl site!), and everything newer up
until now?
Yeah, this is a long-overdue change as part of the groundwork for eventually
supporting arm64 packages (since I don't want to go back to the bad old days of
potentially different source packages for the same version of an x86 and x86_64
package...)
I didn't make an announcement, as the form of the paths (relative to the package
repository root) which appear in setup.ini is considered an implementation
detail, nobody should be relying on that. We might change it to a hash or
something, one day...
At the moment this only happens for packages deployed via scallywag, since
there's still some work needed to make 'cygport upload' do the same thing.
The issue came up with the Curl website posting the previous Cygwin source
package release version:
https://curl.se/download.html#Win64cygwin
from the kernel.org mirror x86_64 release tree:
https://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/x86_64/release/curl/curl-8.16.0-1-src.tar.xz
so what advice should we give Curl as to a canonical location where they can
find the latest Cygwin curl release source package?
Look in:
https://cygwin.com/packages/packages.json.xz # .asc/.sig/.sum?
or:
https://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini{.xz,.zst,.bz2,}{.sig,}
or elsewhere, or give them the alternatives and let them decide?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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