Re: [Mingw-users] Can we have our own mingw-get repositories?

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 18/12/12 12:32, Cristiano Sumariva wrote:
> Would this work as an mirror of mingw?

No.  Vincent's repository, here...

>> yes. I have one :
>>
>> http://dev.enlightenment.fr/~doursse/mingw-w64-x86_32/README.txt

...*augments* MinGW.org; it does *not* mirror it.  As Earnie has already 
noted, MinGW.org's repositories are hosted on SourceForge, and their 
mirroring capability is the *only* one we will sanction.

If you do wish to augment MinGW.org's repository, as Vincent has done, 
there are some guidelines you must follow:

1) You *must* specify your own namespace, (Vincent's is "efl"), and 
incorporate it into your catalogue (package list) file names, to avoid 
conflict with other repositories.

2) You *must* name your packages distinctively; replacement of packages 
from MinGW.org's repository, (or indeed any other), by specifying any 
duplicate name, is *not* supported.

3) You are *advised* to designate your own sysroot mapping; (Vincent 
uses his "efl" namespace tag as his subsystem identifier for this). 
While this is not mandatory, it is prudent and responsible.

4) You *must* adopt the package naming convention as specified at:
http://mingw.org/PackageIdentificationHOWTO

5) You must provide the XML catalogue files to define your repository 
content; these *must* be hosted, in LZMA compressed format, at the URL 
specified in your profile.xml repository identification, (with the %F 
tag replaced by the specified catalogue name).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.