Hi, > > One option is to make a tarball up and post it somewhere until the mirrors > > pick it up. > > That's what I've done for now. Glad to know that was ok :)
Nevertheless, the general question is interesting in itself. What to do if one wants to follow the SVN version of a package ? Can one assume that the build machine will have network access ? (It kind of has to if only to download the source tarball, but I can imagine scenarios where you download lots of sources in bulk and then compile while on the road ...) I am interested in something similar myself, and thought essentially of two solutions : (i) ship a base tarball that is close to the SVN trunk, and make a patch script that calls SVN to catch up to a prescribed revision number. The base tarball might be empty but it's not nice to the server ... (ii) ship a base tarball that is close to the SVN trunk, and make a patch script that calls SVN to catch up with the trunk itself. Then the .deb file depends on the compilation date, which is wrong for distribution but useful for a local package, as "fink rebuild" will then automate most of it. Solution (i) sounds acceptable, but it would be fantastic to have fields like Repository: and Revision: in finkinfo file ! And solution (ii), to be implementable properly, would need to compute the package version number from the current revision, which afaik is not doable right now. Anyway, it's too hot to think properly these days ... Cheers, /v -- Vincent Beffara UMPA - ENS-Lyon 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 Tél : 04 72 72 85 25
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