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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:50:17AM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> There is a problem with Netscape flash, and possible other packages. |
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> The problem is that the tarball name doesn't include version-number. |
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> This results in that the cashing at ibiblio (and in |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles) doesn't work correctly. |
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> Currently the one in ibiblio unpacks itself to |
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> ${WORKDIR}/Linux but if you download it from the site it unpacks in |
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> ${WORKDIR}/flash_linux (the one in ibiblio is the old one). |
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> How can this be solved? |
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In this very case, the solution is simple: We do not cache the tarball, as |
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we're not allowed to. We should in fact adopt a policy of never caching |
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commercial packages unless explicitly noted by the ebuild maintainer. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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