Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:12:33 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] Managing source packages
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The latest saveas-http:// idea hack brings up another thing we need to
handle.

How do we deal with source packages that disappears from upstream?

Problem: we add a source URL in APKBUILD, 4 weeks later the project is
gone for some reason or they have moved the source file or their server
is just down.

When bootstrapping, this is a major pain. According the GPL license we
also have to provide the sources so we need to do something about this.

The current workaround is http://distfiles.alpinelinux.org which
basically is the shared /var/cache/distfiles for the build boxes. In
abuild.conf you can add
DISTFILES_MIRROR=http://distfiles.alpinelinux.org/distfiles and abuild
will use this instead of downloading from upstream.

I still wonder though, how and when do we delete files from distfiles?
I dont think we should delete source files that are used for v1.10
releases, so how do we do that? git checkout v1.10, make a list of all
sourcefiles and mark them as "protected"? then finally delete all files
that are not marked as "protected"?

Or do we switch to debian style src packages or srpms like?

I have also some ideas of a script that parses current aports and
downloads headers only, and then reports all 404 or non-responding
servers and notifies the maintainer.

-nc


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