On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:29:18AM -0600, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Wouldn't it be possible to somehow impose an increase of either the >> pkgver or pkgrel ? I mean if you do update a package you should >> probably increase one of these. Maybe the build machine could check >> this ? Or maybe on commit but I'm not sure .... > > Given how rare such problems are, I would not force such a check. Just > think about for example a description correction of the kernel package. > If you force pkgrel++, then you need to rebuild all external modules as > well - while currently we have the option to say "this is a minor > change, it's enough if it'll be included in the next build". > > Again, to have this problem, a developer has to intentionally upload the > same package release two times with different contents, that's rare. I'm > sure Melko already learned he won't do this next time, no need to blame > him, he's a great guy. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Frugalware-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel > >
It wasn't my intention to blame him at all, on the contrary, I think he's doing a great job. Just recently he pointed to a mistake that I made. Still, rare as these problems are, this is debatable. Maybe there should be something to protect against this. It was a very strange error and it could be very hard for some people to figure it out. At least a helpful message or something would be nice. I remember I kept trying to download the package over and over again because it said it was corrupted which wasn't exactly right... It's not that I can't solve this problem now but for a new user it might be hard and it might make a bad impression when you can't even get the package manager to install a package. I'm not sure I understood this correctly but if I did then a possible solution would be to generate a file when a corrupted archive is found with the name of that archive. Any other tries to install it should then default to pacman -Syy. Upon success the file would be deleted. This is just an idea, I don't know pacman internals .... _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
