On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > >Missing biblatex-2.9a.tds.tgz > > Ken, > > Looking at this page I also see biblatex-biber.tar.gz. We already had one > of these in the system, but the present one is a different size and (of > course) md5sum. How is a user supposed to know what's current? > > It's really not acceptable to have the same name but different directories. > I know this is an upstream issue, but can you ask them to make a properly > versioned tarball? > > -- Bruce > I can try, but I very much suspect that the answer will be along the lines of "the directories are versioned" - i.e. both the directory from which we download, and the directory name in the tarball.
For my local copies, I have renamed them to -1.8, -1.9. Would that be a suitable workaround for an LFS copy ? We do already keep our own copies of packages taken from git. In any case, I doubt that upstream will care to rename an existing tarball. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
