Forgot to cc: list, sorry... On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:46 AM, John Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > Yes, I see. One caveat, for those reading along at home: entering the > GitHub URL directly and clicking "update" results in the following error: > > Resolving "rsound" via > http://download.racket-lang.org/releases/6.1/catalog/ > Resolving "rsound" via http://pkgs.racket-lang.org > Updating: > rsound > Resolving "rsound" via > http://download.racket-lang.org/releases/6.1/catalog/ > Resolving "rsound" via http://pkgs.racket-lang.org > Using cached14134772981413477298507 for > https://github.com/jbclements/RSound/tarball/16a1959962f5dd8c29e3ea6bf1bb1d9d3bb569ee > DrRacket update: version mismatch for dependency > for package: rsound > mismatch packages: > portaudio (have 0.1, need 1.0.1) > > This error message did not immediately help me. > > After more poking around, I see that (apparently) I need to uninstall the > old version first, which does make some sense. > > I propose the following change to the interface: when someone enters a > different source for a package that's already installed, the default action > should not be "upgrade". Instead, the default action should probably be: > pop up a message box saying that this package is already installed, and > that if you want to use a different source, you should uninstall the > existing one first. > > Does that make sense to you? > > > 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 >> > >
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