[oss-devel] oss source tarball name

[Dev Mazumdar]

Clive Wright wrote:
> Dev Mazumdar wrote:
>> Yair K. wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   Currently, the source tarballs are stored in the following manner:
>>>
>>>    1) Latest stable tarballs are stored in /developer/sources/stable/$LICENSE/ 
>>> and the name of the tarballs depends on the build number.
>>>    2) Older tarballs are stored in /developer/sources/stable/attic/
>>>
>>> This is a problem for those which use automatic scripts to build oss or 
>>> package systems which build from source. The latest tarball's name depends on 
>>> the build number, which means that the script must be updated every time a 
>>> new build is released. If said script wants to keep using a build after a 
>>> newer one is released, it still has to be updated, because the directory has 
>>> changed.
>>>
>>>   I suggest the following:
>>>     A. A stable filename which gurantees to match the latest build.
>>>     B. A stable filename which gurantess to match the current build (maybe 
>>> having a copy already in attic/ ?).
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>> 	Yair K.
>> Hi,
>>
>> While I agree with this, how do we specify the build id in the package name?
>>
>> We can guarantee that whatever is in the stable/$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
> 
> 
> 
> Symlinks are fine but in a webpage but not having an ls -l facility you 
> can never be sure where they are pointing.
> What is wrong with using a filelist as in the /release directory then 
> download the latest build with wget. See following example:
> 
> wget http://www.4front-tech.com/release/`GET \
> http://www.4front-tech.com/release/filelist.v40 |grep Linux-i386 |\
> gawk '{print $2}' -`
> 
> regards,
> Clive
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Right - good idea - then we'll try to create a filelist file that has 
the correct source tree location.



regards
Dev

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