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On Thursday 12 June 2003 23:24, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> <snip> |
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> > > As for transforming, would it really be needed? I've spent a bit of |
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> > > time rooting through the distfile dir and I don't recall seeing |
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> > > non-versioned names, although as always, I could be wrong. |
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> > You are wrong there are even auxiliary files in the distfiles repository. |
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> > Unversioned tarbals are though, certainly not helping to get a package |
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> > into the repository. Sometimes we provide a versioned version of a tarbal |
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> > on the portage mirrors. |
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> I'm guessing what you're saying is that I'm wrong on the 'auxiliary |
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> files' aspect? Example? Unless you were referencing my comment about |
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No, on the point that there are no unversioned files in the distfiles dir. |
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Unfortunately there are. |
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> non-versionned tarballs... I guess I don't follow on what I'm wrong |
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> about. |
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> As for changing the name of a tarball locally so it's versioned, that |
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> doesn't strike me as the best solution- the name change ought to take |
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> place at the server/mirror level. Course that's my opinion... |
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> ~Brian |
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The server of the package unfortunately is not under control of gentoo, as |
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each package is developed by their respective independent developers. In some |
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cases it is not possible to change that name, in other cases the version is |
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specified by a directory name. |
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My solution would have the mirrors provide the versioned files only, but |
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specifying a transformation would enable automatic transformation of name on |
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both the mirrors, and at the user, for files that are not (or will not be) |
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mirrored (yet). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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