[darcs-users] darcs-0.9.10 tarball / Gentoo ebuilds

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:19:16PM +0200, Andres Loeh wrote:
> Based on Peter's suggestions, I have created a
> Gentoo Linux ebuild for darcs a few days ago,
> for version 0.9.10 and 0.9.11.

Thanks!

> For example, darcs-0.9.10 has apparently been
> removed from the server. This means that people 
> cannot use this version of the package anymore 
> with Gentoo, because this change propagates to
> the Gentoo mirrors, and after a while the package
> can no longer be found.
> 
> Is darcs-0.9.10 really gone (in that case, I
> will remove that ebuild forever) or is it available
> from some different location?

I accidentally deleted it (well, actually I accidentally modified it and
then intentionally deleted it), and didn't bother recreating it (on the
theory that noone would notice...).  I've created a new 0.9.10 tarball.

> Similar problems arise when the tarball is changed
> without a version bump, as has, for instance,
> happened when adding the documentation files.
> Then, the MD5 checksum changes and for security
> reasons no one will be able to install the package
> anymore without manual intervention.
> 
> I would therefore ask to keep at least two releases
> around all the time, and to try to avoid changes
> of the latter kind (updating the archive without
> increasing the version count).

Ok, that makes sense.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/