Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem: HOWTOs archive versions

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Saturday 28 July 2001 20:21, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:14:13PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is not meant to revive the versioning question.
> >
> > The various app-doc/howto ebuilds (by pm) have no versions, because the
> > standard howto archives have none. The ebuilds define version 1.0
> > arbitrarily, but they always download the newest archive with the same
> > address and filename.
> >
> > Do you think we should manage this situation in a better way?
> >
> > Should we try to work with setting the version dynamically at merge time
> > to the archive's timestamp?
>
> Best solution for right now is to create our own version of the archive
> with a timestamp, and write the linuxdoc people to create these archives
> with a timestamp (20010728, for example) as the version number:
>
> linux-howto-20010728.tar.gz

OK, but I forgot to introduce the more important question: what about 
checksums (i.e. message digests)? Should we check for & create a new ebuild 
for a new timestamp every week or so, or should we override checksums? And 
how do you override them?
-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel