This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: cygport upload command?


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:14:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>Using cygport, I think that packaging has become quite easy now.  At least,
>once the cygport script is built and working, updating a package to a new
>release is as easy as updating the version number in the cygport script,
>then running 'cygport ... download all'.
>
>Except for one thing: the upload step.  Maintainers still have to go
>through the procedure at
>https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html.  Although it's
>easier than the old manual upload process, it's still a little tedious and
>error-prone.
>
>Yaakov, would you consider adding an 'upload' command to cygport, that
>would handle the uploading details?  That would take away the last bit of
>manual work in a routine package update.
>
>If you don't have the time or interest to add an upload command yourself,
>would you consider a patch?  I've spent some time looking through cygport
>code, and I might have time to give it a try, or maybe someone else would.

FWIW, this is the script that I use.  Obviously the path to the upload
directory would have to be changed.

cgf

Attachment: upload
Description: Text document


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]