Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem

[Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:36:23PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> I personally think that we need to look into providing more finegrained 
> distfiles. The best proposal I heard up til now is name rewriting. An ebuild 
> specifies how a distfile is to be called. Portage then needs to be smart 
> enough to use the renamed file from the mirrors, but the normal one from the 
> main repository.

Shouldn't this be easy with digests? It checks the checksum of it's local
file. If it isn't the same as the one in the digest file, it assumes it is an
old distfile and dowloads a more recent one. If even that one fails, the
ebuild fails with the normal "digest failed" error.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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