[oss-devel] oss source tarball name

[Clive Wright]

Hannu Savolainen 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.
>>   
> Maybe we could include a file that contains the build ID (for example 
> ./ossbuildid.txt) and/or a symbolic link to the latest OSS version 
> (./latest-oss-directory). Would this help?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Hannu

Hi,

This is another reason for having a filelist (as already agreed in 
another strand of this thread).

extract from: http://www.4front-tech.com/release/filelist.v40

Linux-i386-26:200801022314 oss-linux-v4.0-1012-i386.tar.bz2

Short of a signature/checksum (the validity of which would be 
questionable) it contains all the information required.

regards,
Clive