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

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

I have mailed the linuxdoc mailing list, we'll see what they say. I suggested 
using symlinks e.g. that they have Linux-HOWTOS.tar.gz a symlink always 
pointing to the latest version which has a timestamp in its filename.

File mtimes/atimes can't be used because (on my system at least) prozilla 
destroys them when using HTTP.

Reiterating the old question: how do you override checksums? (e.g. create 
correct ones on-the-fly from within the ebuild).

Another question: the HOWTOs are published in many formats. Unlike 
text/html/html-single, most of the others e.g. ps/pdf/sgml don't have a 
single archive, only the separate howto files. If I wanted to create an 
ebuild to download these, could I somehow make it download an entire 
directory with all its contents from the server so that I wouldn't have to 
manually add new files?
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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel