Re: Nuking the Cygwin packaging for 'chere'

On 8/27/2025 8:43 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 27/08/2025 16:37, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 27/08/2025 05:30, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> By mistake I replicated the author's git repository of chere into the 
>>> Cygwin repository.  How can I nuke that so I can push my own repo, 
>>> which just has a .cygport and patch file like most projects have?
> 
> If I might gently suggest to start as you hope to go on, there should 
> never be a need for a patch file for a package where you are the upstream.
> 
> 
> You can strip back the chere Makefile to something like:
> 
>> .PHONY=all install
>>
>> BIN_IPATH:=usr/bin
>> MAN_IPATH:=usr/share/man/man1
>>
>> all :
>>
>> install :
>>         mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/$(BIN_IPATH)
>>         cp src/chere $(DESTDIR)/$(BIN_IPATH)/chere
>>         cp src/xhere $(DESTDIR)/$(BIN_IPATH)/xhere
>>         mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/$(MAN_IPATH)
>>         gzip -c src/chere.1 > $(DESTDIR)/$(MAN_IPATH)/chere.1.gz
>>
> 
> Then stick a tag on it.
> 
> Then the cygport should be relatively straightforward:
> 
>> NAME="chere"
>> VERSION=1.5
>> RELEASE=1
>>
>> SUMMARY="Cygwin Prompt Here context menus"
>> DESCRIPTION="Shell script to manage shell here context menus for Cygwin"
>> HOMEPAGE="https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/chere/"
>> LICENSE="Public-Domain"
>>
>> CATEGORY="Shells Utils System"
>> REQUIRES="cygwin coreutils run getent"
>>
>> GIT_URI="git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-apps/chere"
>> GIT_TAG="${VERSION//\./_}"
>> inherit git
>>
>> src_compile() {
>>   :
>> }
>>
>> src_install() {
>>   cd ${S}
>>   cyginstall
>> }
> 
> Modify the tagging style and transformation to your taste.
> 
> The choice license is based on the statement in the manpage. A brief 
> look at the mailing list history when this package was first created 
> unfortunately doesn't shed any more light.

Thanks very much for this input, Jon, and for the cleanup work you've 
done on my chere repo.  I will proceed down this path when I return to 
the land of keyboards in a couple weeks.  At that time I will also 
address the missing commits in my cygutils git repo.
Cheers & Regards,

..mark