Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:32:30 +0200
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Corentin Chary
> > <corentin.chary@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Hi again,
> >
> > Found a little problem: it's not finding a newer version of
> > wireless-regdb, which uses a date-based versioning system. If euscan
> > tried to view/parse the directory index where the distfiles are
> > located, it would find this new file.
> >
> > http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/net-wireless/wireless-regdb/
>
> Hi,
> If you try to run euscan on that, you'll get:
>
> >  * Url doesn't seems to depend on version: 20101124 not found in
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/download/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2010.11.24.tar.bz2
>
> What's happenning here is that the version can be found in the url, so
> even a directory scan won't find anything because it won't be able to
> match files.
> It would work correctly if the version was 2010.11.24 or the file was
> named wireless-regdb-20101124.tar.bz2.
>
> Unfortunatly, making that work would probably introduce a lot of false
> positive in other cases.

To be honest, you should be possible to preset PN, PV and other ebuild
variables and run the ebuild afterwards to see what SRC_URI it gives.
But that's a significant amount of work.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny