Re: [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2016-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > I'm not sure setup.ini is the right format for that information, but > yes, some kind of upload manifest would be good. Well, it was a format we already know how to produce and consume and delivers a good checksum for each file. The other thing that's easily used is hashdeep

per-version hints proposal

2016-06-20 Thread Jon Turney
Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions. This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies. To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the setup.hint file in an uploa

Re: [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2016-06-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 14/06/2016 06:38, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Crazily, this isn't validated before we move the uploaded file, which I shall look at changing :S Well, let's upload a complete install hierarchy with setup.ini and this can't happen because the checksums would have to match. I'm not