On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:43, Justin Pryzby wrote: --cut-- > > > What I did, in an unofficial package, is to include a > > > debian/rules:get-orig-source target which simply calls a script, > > > created in ./debian/ by the .diff.gz. A prerequisite for that rule is > > > "permissions", which chmod 755 all the scripts that rules calls. My > > > repack script just wgets a statically named file (suboptimal), unpacks > > > > How do you ensure that the builders of that source package wont get a > > changed file with the same name or that the download will complete before > > the build get started ? See #325161. Yes, I know that the patch is rather > > incomplete. > > I don't, though its an interesting idea. If it were important to me, > then I would probably call md5sum (in essential package: coreutils) on > the downloaded files (in a for loop, if there were that many..), and > compare with the md5sums in a bash array (or perl if it was really > sophisticated..).
Yeah, I know this could be done on a per-package basis, but would be nice if we have a unified interface for reliably grabbing the relevant tarballs. This will reduce the fragmentation and error-proness in multiple implementations. If you have a corner case you can always use the dirty hackish self-implemented fetching target ;-) -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
