6 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-portsRe: Handling tarballs with no version| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Glenn Johnson | Apr 19, 2001 10:52 am | |
| Peter Pentchev | Apr 19, 2001 10:59 am | |
| Glenn Johnson | Apr 19, 2001 11:53 am | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Apr 19, 2001 1:07 pm | |
| Glenn Johnson | Apr 19, 2001 1:30 pm | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Apr 19, 2001 1:38 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Handling tarballs with no version | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Glenn Johnson (gjoh...@srrc.ars.usda.gov) | |
| Date: | Apr 19, 2001 1:30:58 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-ports | |
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:08:21PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
Glenn Johnson wrote:
I have a port that I maintain that does not use a version number in the tar file. If I update the port and bump either the PORTVERSION or PORTREVISION variable, then users who have the port installed will get a CHECKSUM mismatch when doing an upgrade. How can I force the update of the distfile when one installs the port? I was thinking that running the distclean target prior to fetch would work but what is the cleanest way to implement that?
Contact original author of software and ask him/her to assign some meaningful version number to the tarball in question. All other options suck badly.
I did contact him a while back and he gave me some reason for wanting to do it the way he does so that is a dead end. I guess it will just have to be up to the user to handle it when the checksum mismatch occurs.
Thanks.
-- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC Phone: (504) 286-4252 New Orleans, LA 70124 e-mail: gjoh...@srrc.ars.usda.gov
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