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From: Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:08:19
Message-Id: 4C265E25.3080009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 06/26/10 20:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200
3 > Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >> BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging
5 >> scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs,
6 >> just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly
7 >> from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that).
8 >
9 > Down that path lies madness. There's no guarantee that you'll get the
10 > same tarball if you request the same URL twice in a row, particularly
11 > if you're using one of those new-fangled new compression schemes.
12
13 I agree with Ciaran here, to add one more thing: tags can be mutable.
14
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16 Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xF6A80E46
17 desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python...

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