Joshua Root wrote:
One problem with the current system is that the archives
are sorted by OS and Arch, but not including OS version.
That is, the binaries for Tiger and Leopard would go to
the same file path - unless having a platform variant...
It also needs digests (e.g. SHA) and signatures (e.g GPG)
as well as better metadata, however those are achieved ?
You should take this up on MacPorts Dev, if you want to
improve it. It's still stalling on the build logs, I think.
That and registry support for the extra info.
The extra info is usually external to the archives,
i.e. you add a SHA1SUMS with an .asc or something...
Here's one example from the Linux world, for instance:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/CHECKSUMS.md5
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc
The package format used (.tgz) is similar to MacPorts's.
With "better metadata" I mostly meant the storage
within the archive, even if there's plenty of missing
fields too (but those are listed as separate issues...)
Currently the Portfile contents is dumped as +PORTFILE,
and then it's included with the rest of the destroot
files and compressed with the same compression as well.
This can be improved upon without adding registry info.
--anders
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