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Background: Yesterday I bumped the revision of helixplayer-bin from |
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0.3.0.71 to 0.3.0.124. Both of these releases of helixplayer require |
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a click through in order to download (i.e. fetch restriction). |
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However, today, the Alpha version of helixplayer was released, this |
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version doesn't require a click through in order to download. However, |
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this version is 0.3.0.123 which is older than the one with fetch |
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restrictions. |
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So, how do I communicate to people merging this package, that what they |
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probably want is 0.3.0.123, even though there is a newer package. |
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Options: |
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- Just remove the ebuilds with fetch restrictions. |
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- Make the 0.3.0.123 stable right now (probably the wrong route) |
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- Make the ones with fetch restrictions -x86, so that the user has to |
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force it. This is the one I'm leaning towards, because this way, |
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enterprising users have the ebuild to use the fetch restricted |
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helixplayer, but most users just get the alpha version 0.3.0.123 and |
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don't have to worry about fetch restrictions. |
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Another question: |
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Also, I am behind a proxy (which I'm sure many people are). The download |
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for helixplayer is at a https link only |
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(https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/410/hxplay-0.3.0.123-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.tar.bz2). |
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I can't get wget to proxy https through our proxy (I have to use firefox |
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to download the file to distfiles). I read something that said wget 1.9 |
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doesn't work properly with https proxying? 1.9 is the stable version in |
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portage. |
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I guess it will be okay once the helixplayer download propogates to the |
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mirrors, but it still doesn't seem like the ideal situation. |
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Any guidance for either issue? |
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P.S. Also, for those of you following helixplayer/realplayer stuff, |
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there is also a source download (also not fetch restricted) on the alpha |
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download page: |
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https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154 |
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It's ugly though because they use their own weird build system. Anybody |
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else want to take a crack at getting it working? I'm not sure I'll have |
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the time anytime soon. |
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Joel Martin -- kanaka |
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