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From: Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-java] dealing with VM vendors that don't change distfiles names
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:59:43
Message-Id: 4429414E.8030401@gentoo.org
1 It seems some of the VM vendors, mostly Sun and IBM, just love to
2 release new versions of their VMs, but without changing the filename
3 they get released as. In short, this means that it breaks our ebuilds,
4 because the instructions for getting the file are the same, but the file
5 it leads to is different, and therefore the digest breaks.
6
7 There are currently at least 3 bugs filed for this issue:
8
9 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127204
10 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123590
11 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122220
12
13 There are a few solutions.
14
15 * Just redigest the ebuild with the new distfile. This would be the
16 quickest solution, but it'd be problematic because then the digest would
17 be broken for people that already have the distfiles.
18
19 * Have users rename the files. This is used in a few cases at least.
20 This leads to the question of how to version the ebuilds though, because
21 they don't follow a sane (to us) versioning scheme, ie GA, SR-1, SR-2, etc.
22
23 * Some totally awesome way I haven't of yet.
24
25 Thoughts?
26
27 - Josh
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29 gentoo-java@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-java] dealing with VM vendors that don't change distfiles names "Miroslav Šulc" <miroslav.sulc@××××××××.cz>
[gentoo-java] Re: dealing with VM vendors that don't change distfiles names Wiktor Wandachowicz <siryes@×××××.com>