Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw-get publication of msys-base -- phase 2

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

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 01:11:19 Charles Wilson wrote:
> > I think I'll tackle "msys-tar" next -- I'd have liked to have had
> > it available today; IIRC, that also requires gzip, bzip2 and xz.
>
> Nice.

Okay.  I've now had a look at this; reviewed and tested locally:

   msys-diffutils.xml
   msys-less.xml
   msys-tar.xml

I notice that, within the last of these, you didn't specify dependencies 
on msys-bzip2-bin, msys-gzip-bin or msys-xz-bin, yet all are required to
achieve full functionality of tar, when processing compressed archives.  
Hence, I have added these missing prerequisites, and also reviewed and 
tested:

   msys-bzip2.xml
   msys-gzip.xml
   msys-xz.xml

I then updated msys-package-list.xml to include these six, added their 
respective -bin component references as prerequisites of msys-base, in 
msys-base.xml, generated and pushed .lzma versions of all eight to FRS, 
and, after several false starts while waiting for SF's mirrors to catch 
up, successfully[*] used mingw-get to reinstall msys-base from scratch, 
(having obliterated all previous trace of it from the host).

[*] I did notice one issue: during mingw-get's installation phase, some 
archives were processed twice; I'm investigating this.

BTW, to help me keep track of what is published, I've moved the 
corresponding package containers, in FRS, into the MSYS/BaseSystem 
hierarchy.  I'm also considering prefixing "msys-" to each name there, 
to match the XML file name, as each is addressed within msys-base.xml.  
With that strategy, we could then move all components which belong to 
msys-base into that hierarchy immediately, and use the application of 
the "msys-" prefix to indicate availability via mingw-get; any 
objection to me progressing with this strategy?

Of your original list, the above leave only findutils and expat to be 
addressed, so I guess these two should be tackled next.  Then what?  
msys-file and msys-make certainly belong in msys-base; maybe also 
msys-texinfo (for install-info).  Anything else I've missed?

-- 
Regards,
Keith.