From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSbnU-0003hG-AO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:16:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E135E0B0B; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (forum.psychotherapie.org [217.160.22.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B4CE0A5D for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3) with UUCP id o5QKFxWW016383 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:15:59 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id o5QK9Afg026725 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:09:10 +0200 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:09:09 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Message-ID: <20100626200909.GG4789@nibiru.local> References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <4C2518FB.9090800@gentoo.org> <20100626185104.GB4789@nibiru.local> <4C265345.6060102@gentoo.org> <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Terror: bin laden, kill bush, Briefbombe, Massenvernichtung, KZ, X-Nazi: Weisse Rasse, Hitlers Wiederauferstehung, 42, X-Antichrist: weg mit schaeuble, ausrotten, heiliger krieg, al quaida, X-Killer: 23, endloesung, Weltuntergang, X-Doof: wer das liest ist doof X-Archives-Salt: 754a3937-7477-4612-9679-1d9807da1bad X-Archives-Hash: bdc0306282424a2a30f1e4879e6b086e * Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging > > scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, > > just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly > > from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). > > Down that path lies madness. There's no guarantee that you'll get the > same tarball if you request the same URL twice in a row, particularly > if you're using one of those new-fangled new compression schemes. Well, with git this works. (I'll yet have to run some automatic stress tests, but at all my manual tests worked really fine). *If* this might not work somewhere, the little generator script could create the tarball only once (on first request) and use it all the time. Or add some commit/push hook, etc, etc. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------