On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I have run into the situation a couple times now that the software
developer provides a download URL that does not contain the version
number. For example, gtkwave:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11238
And sitescooper:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11050
The portfile gets written to download the archive, including its
checksums, and then when the author goes and updates the software,
it breaks the port because the checksum has changed but the
download filename is the same.
I don't know about sitescooper, but I've checked with the author of
gtkwave, and he cannot provide versioned downloads because he does
not have enough webspace to store the prior versions. (The current
version is about 2.5 MB.)
What should we do in cases like these? Do we go and grab the
archives and put them on a MacPorts web server with a versioned
URL, or do we use the original download URL and just accept that
the port will break when the developer updates the software?
I think we should grab and host the distfiles in cases like this. I
created space for such in our subversion tree at /distfiles (at root
of our tree, at the same level as trunk). This is available through
http at http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles.
James
Begin forwarded message:
From: Anthony J Bybell
Date: January 24, 2007 00:56:07 CST
To: Ryan Schmidt
Subject: Re: Download specific version of gtkwave?
Ryan,
There's no way to download a specific version given that I don't
have the
webspace on my ISP to support all the versions. I will forward out a
tarball of 3.0.14 in my next note.
-Tony
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Hi. Is there a way to download version 3.0.14 -- or any specific
version -- of gtkwave? All I see on your web page is a way to
download the "current" version of gtkwave, but for the MacPorts
project we need a reliable way to download a specific version, even
after you have released a new version. Thanks.
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