Seem simple enough, however I don't have a Mac so I don't see me testing this in any sensible manner.
Anybody with a Mac ready to give it a try? Maybe I can help with interpreting compiler output. Greets, Bram On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > have any of you tried out Homebrew? http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ > > it's like Appupdater or apt-get for OS X, a package manager that downloads > source & compiles it. > > it's really cool. one issue tho is there's an army of guys (manually it > seems?) updating the "Formula" (Ruby files) that describe each app when a > new version comes out. so there's some lag, like any package management with > maintainers that have to do manual updates. > > I think this is an opportunity for metalink to automate this process. > anyone familiar w/ Ruby that might be interested? that way it could fit in > w/ the existing Homebrew stuff. > > anyways, one possible way would be to add metalink to the Formula (the one > for curl's included at the end of msg) > > metalink 'http://curl.haxx.se/metalink.cgi?curl=tar.gz' > > then the process would be: > > download the metalink from similarly autoupdated addresses when new versions > of (for instance) aria2 and libmetalink come out > hb already uses curl (Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb) > get the app's version in the version element of the metalink XML. > if version's greater than what's in the Formula, update the url and hash > > what do you think? seems relatively simple. > > other metalink-related opportunities: > > they'd like to support torrent downloads. -> a Formula for aria2 is already > provided, I guess torrents would need a custom download strategy (see > Specifying the Download Strategy section at > https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Formula-Cookbook ) > > the curl metalink has a PGP signature. curl + GPGME? that would be better > than the hashes. > > ----- > > > require 'formula' > > class Curl < Formula > homepage 'http://curl.haxx.se/' > url 'http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.27.0.tar.gz' > sha256 '8cbad34e58608f0e959fe16c7c987e57f5f3dec2c92d1cebb0678f9d668a6867' > > keg_only :provided_by_osx, > "The libcurl provided by Leopard is too old for CouchDB to use." > > option 'with-ssh', 'Build with scp and sftp support' > option 'with-libmetalink', 'Build with Metalink support' > > depends_on 'pkg-config' => :build > depends_on 'libssh2' if build.include? 'with-ssh' > depends_on 'libmetalink' if build.include? 'with-libmetalink' > > def install > args = %W[ > --disable-debug > --disable-dependency-tracking > --prefix=#{prefix} > ] > > args << "--with-libssh2" if build.include? 'with-ssh' > args << "--with-libmetalink" if build.include? 'with-libmetalink' > > system "./configure", *args > system "make install" > end > end > > -- > (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] > )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Metalink Discussion" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
