On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! I really like the new package system! > > Okay, now I'm going to complain... > > I'm having trouble with pkgs.racket-lang.org, and it's affecting my classes. > > The issue here is that the catalog doesn't seem to have picked up my last > change to the rsound package, made some time yesterday. In particular, I had > to roll back two packages, portaudio and rsound, and portaudio got rolled > back but not rsound, which means that the pkg-reported current version of > rsound (16a1959962f) (as opposed to the github-reported current version of > ((0e28de6c)) now has a dependency on a version of portaudio (1.0.1) that is > no longer available. (This can also be seen by the build status of rsound, > which is now shown on pkgs.racket-lang.org as failing.) > > I've tried to update using the web page, with not so much success. > Yesterday, the web page was getting stuck at the "logging in..." phase; I > waited for ... 10 minutes? No joy. Today, I'm seeing the same thing, though > 20 minutes ago I saw a successful login, with a thin yellow banner > indicating that an update was in progress. > > Perhaps the answer here is to host my own catalog for my students. I spent > 10 minutes looking into this, but I got stuck when it turned out that > pkgs/meta/pkg-catalog/ isn't actually part of my installation.
The catalog protocol [1] is extremely easy to implement by hand. If you have a public_html setup in your university's Web machine, here's what you do: mkdir public_html/catalog cd public_html/catalog cat > rsound <<END #hash((source . "github:///")(checksum . "deadbeef")) END cat > portaudio <<END #hash((source . "github:///")(checksum . "deadbeef")) END You now have a catalog! Tell your students to add "http://xxx/~mcjbc/catalog"; and you're in business. (When you make a commit change the checksum string.) 1. http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/catalog-protocol.html?q=catalog > Another solution would be to manually instruct my students to paste the > github reference into the "do what I mean" box, but I suspect this would > lead to confusion and unhappiness in the medium term. This is the easiest thing to do in your case, because if they have a "github" package installed, then when you tell them to "update" the turn-around time would be instant. > So: if there's a good way to poke pkgs.racket-lang.org to pick up the new > version of rsound, I'd love to hear it. > > Thanks again for all the hard work! It keeps getting better! > > John > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
