[osgeo4w-dev] Packaging instructions - questions

[Jeff McKenna]

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As I have not packaged anything for OSGeo4W in a while, I have some 
> basic questions (sorry for the dumb questions following):
> 
> - I see that the setup.ini regeneration process has been changed to 
> running Web scripts, instead of tunneling to the server. Cool.  However 
> I'm not exactly sure what should be happening when I run this according 
> to the wiki instructions: 
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo-setup_test-ini.bat (I only see 
> the contents of that file displayed in the browser)  I assumed I should 
> run something locally like 'setup.exe -t 
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/setup_test.ini', not on 
> download.osgeo.org (please correct me, and I can update the wiki 
> instructions if need be)
> 
> - I'm sure others have hit this issue before (including myself?), but, 
> how do we handle package versions when the cygwin setup code thinks the 
> new package is a [prev] one?  e.g. Cygwin setup code thinks 
> 'apache-2.2.14' is older than all of the other apache packages 
> ('apache-2.2.8') [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/apache/].
> 

Ah ok I wasn't going crazy - this same package versions issue came up a 
year ago (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/23).  I will do some 
reading on setup.hint now (http://cygwin.com/setup.html).

-jeff