[oss-devel] oss source tarball name

[Dev Mazumdar]

Yair K. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Currently, the source tarballs are stored in the following manner:
> 
>    1) Latest stable tarballs are stored in /developer/sources/stable/$LICENSE/ 
> and the name of the tarballs depends on the build number.
>    2) Older tarballs are stored in /developer/sources/stable/attic/
> 
> This is a problem for those which use automatic scripts to build oss or 
> package systems which build from source. The latest tarball's name depends on 
> the build number, which means that the script must be updated every time a 
> new build is released. If said script wants to keep using a build after a 
> newer one is released, it still has to be updated, because the directory has 
> changed.
> 
>   I suggest the following:
>     A. A stable filename which gurantees to match the latest build.
>     B. A stable filename which gurantess to match the current build (maybe 
> having a copy already in attic/ ?).
> 
> Yours,
> 	Yair K.
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Hi,

While I agree with this, how do we specify the build id in the package name?

We can guarantee that whatever is in the stable/$LICENSE is always the 
latest - you will only find ONE bz2 file there.

The other option is we rename as follows:
sources/stable/oss-4.0-stable-<license>.tar.bz2
But you never know what version this file is.


Yet another option is that we have a symlink:
LATEST -> oss-4.0-<buildid>-<license>-tar.bz2
Then you pull down LATEST using wget or whatever.


regards
Dev
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