[osgeo4w-dev] Packaging instructions - questions

[Jeff McKenna]

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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).
> 

I have updated the instructions with this version note 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions).

-jeff