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 1OSbXN-0002I9-43 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:59:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53200E0BD3; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6461BE0BBD for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so1861570wwb.40 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:59:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=vxQX1ZUI1o8U02hBe1aFlSwmnOwuu5VIk/wwZV2m6gE=; b=jZwlZ6+uw3NnfApAYTTvEQnhJOQ4qnGQVHeVtKCkPUuxos5aKl8F7DpHBdr4Q5v5qj BEJbEFwZARfZ+PVUxVIJSbndXbluXtO81+DKEIglRe/G7dLA470G8Qd9/o33br9H+IXL zIVPOwSVkkcZonI3UEceU6/h3TiwCoQ2qDy10= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=a4edFXXhwDHZLBqM0TVRN4Y4BUgt74XKvld5PZWzK1cSH1S5695NG8cQ73IEZCmC1t Y2Jl7mxqkWvbQUq9W/ZTZxdT9/nHnO3uB02yXbe/SplmV7jAYUj3MfgwXoLALf2DW4iL Ik+qr2UXq0yM4fOr4kDzl08LmaicGV1rCQcx0= Received: by 10.216.179.199 with SMTP id h49mr6422584wem.38.1277582367720; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone ([92.16.95.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n61sm3472354wed.6.2010.06.26.12.59.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:59:21 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Message-ID: <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <4C2518FB.9090800@gentoo.org> <20100626185104.GB4789@nibiru.local> <4C265345.6060102@gentoo.org> <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/IAjF9dr8j_+emctWFyEWlt/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4c864873-d3be-4dfe-883d-6732f16f4432 X-Archives-Hash: 47da7496186512b5a8203e5fa6bd5207 --Sig_/IAjF9dr8j_+emctWFyEWlt/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging=20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/IAjF9dr8j_+emctWFyEWlt/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwmXBwACgkQ96zL6DUtXhH3oQCgrYCnjUtUtZqzl8VvBrg0ly/P 1cwAn2V8WyDJW3InopHQQXoin86rk7vk =2Fem -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/IAjF9dr8j_+emctWFyEWlt/--