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 1OSbfn-00035Y-Ll for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:08:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19AADE0BA4; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA4FE0AE6 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.10.11] (unknown [79.97.239.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 29EB21B40CF for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C265E25.3080009@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:08:05 +0100 From: Krzysztof Pawlik Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100419 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <4C2518FB.9090800@gentoo.org> <20100626185104.GB4789@nibiru.local> <4C265345.6060102@gentoo.org> <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig654BC10F242A0050CE66DE6C" X-Archives-Salt: f665d112-9897-49e9-a33d-b8f27c114f96 X-Archives-Hash: b0dc964614bd2e9bad25bbc2756ce889 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig654BC10F242A0050CE66DE6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/26/10 20:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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). >=20 > 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. I agree with Ciaran here, to add one more thing: tags can be mutable. --=20 Krzysztof Pawlik key id: 0xF6A80E46 desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python... --------------enig654BC10F242A0050CE66DE6C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMJl4lAAoJEBZyv1r2qA5GM1IIAISi+jMh5ZmCw8+lsncfSBRq yHpuH2CNgE+UM1QxN6dhh7zDEk+4Y4YXKTI8b8FLvaSe0FoRUWqDt07drB1wbFHz blu2xuRbJk4S2isSIMLGmR5rmX5ymW7OH4mEE0TRMPODflCcoGcBPhOt7K5sqv7M Xh78AK1MEwsnLd60xfAUCUyc1J5sZr1dBy3ct9DcLTXHTG1Lahmvsbzf0nE9SVF+ gLVOx/6pZBvnwdzv95IYNzAy1BLjdTEoOaSD0sUCF0QYuX0jp+gUOgLtP/keFDBX UTqTVoYrNNkuYmV/QmTN9IS/+nZ48tSiQHwGx1j00txDMwYNR6F5RAsRvbgLfig= =9X8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig654BC10F242A0050CE66DE6C--