On 09/07/2010 06:57 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > heh, the distfile was just rerolled with a few things added, like ak, fo, > zh_CN added. :) > > Is there a different mailing list I need to be on to get notifications of > events like that? > > Changing the distfile without changing the version number in it causes lots of > problems for FreeBSD's packaging stuff. :( > > Essentially what happens is the md5 and sha256 of the distfile are recorded in > the ports tree. When the distfile is changed they stop matching. The ports > tree tries all the mirrors, and when it can't get the right one it falls back > to a cached version at *.freebsd.org, which will work, so the changes never > get into the ports tree without someone noticing and kicking things. >
Such behavior will break all source-based Linux distributions out there too. Upstream *must* release every new tarball with updated version number. Something like 2.1.1.1 would work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
