On Sunday 17 February 2008 1:35:05 pm Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * Andres Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080217 17:21]: > > > > For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig > > > > tarball is used. > > > > > > But we keep them allready on alioth. So a "get current orig" target > > > would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't > > > it? > > > > That's only if someone does upload the tarball to alioth. For me, it > > takes 2 or more hours to upload files that are 100MB or more, and that's > > when doing an upload overnight. > > But you need to upload the tarball anyway, e.g. on mentors.d.n. And you > could just wget it to alioth directly.
True, but that's only after I upload to mentors.d.n., when I'm sure a package is ready for upload to Debian. > And TTBOMK it is a pkg-games policy to have the tarballs there. I don't recall it being stated as policy. To my knowledge, the idea was to allow someone to be able to be provided an orig tarball so that they can work with a package. Allowing someone to generate an orig tarball is another way of fulfilling this purpose. > > For this reason, I wanted to supply a get-orig-source or something > > similar that does this. > > As allready explained: You don't want get-orig-source, which is defined > by policy 4.9 to do something different. Right. > > It's also a reason why I wanted svn-buildpackage to be able > > to run "debian/rules get-orig-source" (or any other script and options > > for that matter) just like how svn-buildpackage supports downloading an > > orig tarball. I'm sure the Games Team (and anyone) could benefit from > > this. I did submit a patch for this by the way, it's at > > http://bugs.debian.org/458508. > > As long as you guarantee, that all orig.tar.gz end up with the same > md5sum. When the package is finally uploaded somewhere, then orig tarballs can be downloaded instead of generated, thus allowing everyone to have the same orig tarballs with the same md5sum. > Yours sincerely, > Alexander -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]