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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 08:11, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:36:23PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > I personally think that we need to look into providing more finegrained |
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> > distfiles. The best proposal I heard up til now is name rewriting. An |
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> > ebuild specifies how a distfile is to be called. Portage then needs to be |
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> > smart enough to use the renamed file from the mirrors, but the normal one |
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> > from the main repository. |
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> Shouldn't this be easy with digests? It checks the checksum of it's local |
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> file. If it isn't the same as the one in the digest file, it assumes it is |
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> an old distfile and dowloads a more recent one. If even that one fails, the |
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> ebuild fails with the normal "digest failed" error. |
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The problem would be to support multiple version of the same ebuild. And what |
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to think of different packages wanting different, but similarly named, source |
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files. I think a file renaming scheme might be the best way to handle the |
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problems. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |
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