[ooo-build] Upstream tarballs
Jan Holesovsky
kendy at suse.cz
Tue Aug 25 15:04:32 PDT 2009
Hi,
To save space on download.go-oo.org, I implemented the possibility to download
the upstream source tarballs from cgit.freedesktop.org (like
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ooo-build/writer/snapshot/ooo/DEV300_m54.tar.bz2).
The tarballs are generated on the fly from git, so when the milestone appears
there, you can immediately use the new tarballs, instead of having to wait
for someone to run src-pack2, and upload them. The git trees are updated
nightly, so expect up to one day of slip (unless manual intervention is
necessary, like eg. in the case a new module is introduced upstream).
[One problem there: From time to time, I get 500 Internal Server Error from
cgit, but the next try is OK - see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23519. I hope this is not going
to be extremely annoying, at least in ./download I implemented a retry
mechanism that seems to workaround this quite nicely.]
The second change is that when no --with-git/--without-git is specified, the
configure is trying to be smart, and defaults to --without-git when there is
src/$CVSTAG-bootstrap.tar.bz2, and to --with-git otherwise (ie. no source
tarball yet). This should satisfy both the developers as well as the package
maintainers; but for the package maintainers, to be really sure that the
tarballs are used, you may consider adding --without-git to your configure
switches.
Should there be problems, please let me know.
Regards,
Kendy
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