Re: WSL-4.0 release candidate

On 14/03/13 16:56, Keith Marshall wrote:
> I know you're itching to get a candidate out, but I'll need to get back
> to you; I'll aim to do that by end of play tomorrow.

Okay.  A day late, curtailed by a disk crash, here it is.

First, in a local testing branch, I modified mingw-dist, per the 
attached diff; then, I ran 'make' on the modified tree.

Second, I copied the *unpublished* modified mingw32-runtime.xml.lzma, 
resulting from the 'make', to a locally created and otherwise empty 
var/lib/mingw-get/data directory, whence I unlzma'd it and packaged it 
as wsl_rc-4.0-1-mingw32-rc-1-meta.tar.lzma; this, we would publish to 
the FRS file store; we SHOULD NOT otherwise publish this modified 
mingw32-runtime.xml.lzma to the online catalogue.

Third, I set up a virgin Win7 sandbox directory, installed mingw-get, 
updated to match the current online catalogue, and installed G++.

Fourth, to simulate publication of my mingw-dist changes, I copied my 
unpublished mingw32-wsl_rc.xml.lzma and mingw32-package-list.xml.lzma to 
the var/lib/mingw-get/data directory in the sandbox, and unlzma'd it in 
place, (as 'mingw-get update' would have done, had they been already 
published to the online catalogue).

Fifth, to simulate the effect of publication and subsequent download, I 
copied my wsl_rc-4.0-1-mingw32-rc-1-meta.tar.lzma to the package cache 
directory within the sandbox.

Sixth, to simulate availability of actual release candidate packages, I 
simply hard linked all existing mingwrt and w32api version-3.x packages 
within the cache, to similarly named packages with appropriate version 
adjustments.

Finally, to both test and demonstrate the capabilities of this delivery 
technique, I ran the sequence of operations in the attached transcript.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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