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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Patrick Kursawe wrote: |
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> the mplayer guys seem to have the bad habit of distributing and updating |
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> files while keeping the same name - so, as you can see in bug 29972, we |
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> have files in distfiles which differ from the versions you find when you |
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> follow the SRC_URI. |
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> I'd like to switch to some kind of snapshots (like |
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> win32codecs-20030930.tar.bz2) manually uploaded to distfiles. |
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Sounds good to me. I do this with a couple of game ebuilds where |
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the upstream situation is similar. I usually put a comment in the |
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ebuild with a commented out copy of SRC_URI that points to the "old" |
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source location. |
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Two things: first, it becomes even more important to upload to dev.g.o |
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before committing the ebuild to portage since people will then be depending |
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on the Gentoo mirrors for the source. Second, be sure to email the |
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upstream folks about the situation and ask them if they wouldn't mind |
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versioning their releases. I've found that sometimes it just hasn't |
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occurred to them and once they realize why it's helpful they switch to |
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a versioning scheme. |
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Later, |
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Michael Sterrett |
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-Mr. Bones.- |
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mr_bones_@g.o |
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