I can test on a mac. but I was talking to Donnie Berkholz from Gentoo, and they would be interested in a generic tool that does this (& said that it would be helpful for many other packagers & distributions), so maybe a proof of concept (Python?) for the generic version would be a good start, then maybe adapt it to homebrew?
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Bram Neijt <[email protected]> wrote: > Seem simple enough, however I don't have a Mac so I don't see me > testing this in any sensible manner. > > Anybody with a Mac ready to give it a try? Maybe I can help with > interpreting compiler output. > > Greets, > > Bram > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> have any of you tried out Homebrew? http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ >> >> it's like Appupdater or apt-get for OS X, a package manager that downloads >> source & compiles it. >> >> it's really cool. one issue tho is there's an army of guys (manually it >> seems?) updating the "Formula" (Ruby files) that describe each app when a >> new version comes out. so there's some lag, like any package management with >> maintainers that have to do manual updates. >> >> I think this is an opportunity for metalink to automate this process. >> anyone familiar w/ Ruby that might be interested? that way it could fit in >> w/ the existing Homebrew stuff. >> >> anyways, one possible way would be to add metalink to the Formula (the one >> for curl's included at the end of msg) >> >> metalink 'http://curl.haxx.se/metalink.cgi?curl=tar.gz' >> >> then the process would be: >> >> download the metalink from similarly autoupdated addresses when new versions >> of (for instance) aria2 and libmetalink come out >> hb already uses curl (Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb) >> get the app's version in the version element of the metalink XML. >> if version's greater than what's in the Formula, update the url and hash >> >> what do you think? seems relatively simple. >> >> other metalink-related opportunities: >> >> they'd like to support torrent downloads. -> a Formula for aria2 is already >> provided, I guess torrents would need a custom download strategy (see >> Specifying the Download Strategy section at >> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Formula-Cookbook ) >> >> the curl metalink has a PGP signature. curl + GPGME? that would be better >> than the hashes. >> >> ----- >> >> >> require 'formula' >> >> class Curl < Formula >> homepage 'http://curl.haxx.se/' >> url 'http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.27.0.tar.gz' >> sha256 '8cbad34e58608f0e959fe16c7c987e57f5f3dec2c92d1cebb0678f9d668a6867' >> >> keg_only :provided_by_osx, >> "The libcurl provided by Leopard is too old for CouchDB to use." >> >> option 'with-ssh', 'Build with scp and sftp support' >> option 'with-libmetalink', 'Build with Metalink support' >> >> depends_on 'pkg-config' => :build >> depends_on 'libssh2' if build.include? 'with-ssh' >> depends_on 'libmetalink' if build.include? 'with-libmetalink' >> >> def install >> args = %W[ >> --disable-debug >> --disable-dependency-tracking >> --prefix=#{prefix} >> ] >> >> args << "--with-libssh2" if build.include? 'with-ssh' >> args << "--with-libmetalink" if build.include? 'with-libmetalink' >> >> system "./configure", *args >> system "make install" >> end >> end >> >> -- >> (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] >> )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Metalink Discussion" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Metalink Discussion" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. > -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
