Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>
>> # Upstream homepage links to a file called puzzles.tar.gz which
>> # redirects to puzzles-r$version.tar.gz. uscan can't check that.
>> # However, this is a nightly snapshot numbered according to the SVN
>> # revision number, so we can extract the version number from its web
>> # view.
>> version=3
>> opts="filenamemangle=s/.*\?rev=(\d+).*/sgt-puzzles_$1.orig.tar.gz/,downloadurlmangle=s@.*\?rev=(\d+).*@http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r$1.tar.gz@"; \
>> http://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/puzzles/ /sgt\?rev=(\d+)\&view=rev
>>
>> OK, so it's not exactly pretty...
>
> It also fails in those instances where “available from a VCS” does
> not mean “available as a working tree of files via HTTP”. Some VCS
> repositories make *only* the revision data available, for various
> reasons.
For ffmpeg (and mplayer AFAIUI), upstream provides only revision data,
and is heavily using svn:externals, which forced me doing horrible
things like this:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg-debian.git;a=blob;f=debian/get-orig-source.sh;hb=HEAD
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/mplayer.git;a=blob;f=debian/get-orig-source.sh;hb=HEAD
Does someone manage to "port" that script to uscan? ;-)
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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