Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Help

[Michiel de Bruijne]

Hi Spider,

Maybe I'm overlooking something but how about:
- set a $MAJOR_VERSION in a Gnome eclass (e.g. 2.4)
- set a $SRC_PATH in a Gnome eclass (e.g 
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources)
- set in Gnome eclass something like SRC_URI = 
${SRC_PATH}/${PN}/${MAJOR_VERSION}/${P}.tar.bz2
- remove all SRC_URI entries from gnome ebuilds

If in the future for example the major version change to 2.6 you only have to 
change the eclass.
The removal of all the SRC_URI entries from gnome ebuilds is something that 
can be done by a script.

Regards,
Michiel.

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On Sunday 22 September 2002 04:41, Spider wrote:
> hello folks.....
>
> I'm a tad of a bit irritated right now. the Gnome team has changed the
> ftp layout completely, and Now every download for a gnome package will
> fail from gnome or their updated mirrors.
>
> the update work is harsh since the system is harder to script than
> before.
>
> in this example I'll use "gdm" which is currently at  version
> 2.4.0.11
>
> for example, we now have to link:
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/gdm/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2
>
> Where we now will have to refer to :
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.4/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2
>
> to make this simple across updates is impossible due to the "2.4" which
> will have to either add extra logic to the ebuild, or be manually set
> between major versions.
>
> well, this will be "simple" .. its only the question of a couple of
> man-hours to manually go through all our gnome packages and changing
> SRC_URI ...   happy happy fscking JOY!
>
> Example:
> gdm-2.4.0.11 :
> mirror://gnome/sources/${PN}/2.4/${P}.tar.bz2
>
> Now.. .for my main source of irritation and something I'd require help
> with. in this update, they also saw fit to remove the /latest directory,
> which previously had a nice "sort by date" in the http interface, and
> thus was really simple to keep abreast with added and changed packages
> between our tree and theirs..  Now this is the question of listing all
> packages one by one for each "major" version and checking against our
> supported versions.  as you can imagine this is nothing I look forward
> to doing.
>
> So, I request the help of the creative scripters in the -dev list to
> come up with a way to track changes in a ftp tree between two days, and
> listing the new packages between dates.
>
> ls */*/*.tar* >$DATE ; diff $DATE(TODAY) $DATE(TODAY-1) :
> or something ;)
>
>
> regards,
>   Spider
>       irate developer