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It seems some of the VM vendors, mostly Sun and IBM, just love to |
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release new versions of their VMs, but without changing the filename |
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they get released as. In short, this means that it breaks our ebuilds, |
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because the instructions for getting the file are the same, but the file |
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it leads to is different, and therefore the digest breaks. |
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There are currently at least 3 bugs filed for this issue: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127204 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123590 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122220 |
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There are a few solutions. |
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* Just redigest the ebuild with the new distfile. This would be the |
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quickest solution, but it'd be problematic because then the digest would |
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be broken for people that already have the distfiles. |
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* Have users rename the files. This is used in a few cases at least. |
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This leads to the question of how to version the ebuilds though, because |
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they don't follow a sane (to us) versioning scheme, ie GA, SR-1, SR-2, etc. |
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* Some totally awesome way I haven't of yet. |
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Thoughts? |
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- Josh |
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