Re: [Pkg-grass-general] DebianGIS archive on alioth
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:56:58PM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 10:02, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > Also, the archive is currently sadly empty. Start uploads folks!
> > > I hope we can have there all unofficial packages and surely backports
> > > for woody (and sarge in the future).
> > >
> >
> > Just another nut: being an unofficial archive, it's better to define
> > a rigorous convention for version numbering in order to not break
> > things for official archives. I would propose a schema like (e.g. for grass):
> >
> > 5.7.0-X.dgis.stable.Y
> > 5.7.0-X.dgis.testing.Y
> > 5.7.0-X.dgis.unstable.Y
> >
> > so that all versions are correctly ordered by distribution and
> > X,Y subversioning do ensure compatibility with regular debian archive.
> >
> > X generally will start from 0 (so that an official -1 upload will result always
> > a subsequent version) and Y will start from 1. Generally
> > we would release with X equal to the version
> > already (eventually) present in debian archives for the selected
> > distribution and package. X will be 0 only for new upstream releases not
> > yet present in the main archive. I hope the schema is clear.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> This sounds good. It will be nice to have the 'dgis' in there to
> indicate at a glance where this version of the package was installed
> from.
>
> So now that I've jumped the gun and uploaded 5.7.0-6, how do I replace
> it with 5.7.0-0.dgis.unstable.6, which has a lower version number?
>
At this time I could clean the archive to restart. Generally it would
require epoch to 1:5.7.0-1 would the package would be uploaded into sid.
In the meantime you could normalize to 5.7.0-6.dgis.unstable.1 to start with the right
versioning.
> Also, when I do 'apt-get update' I get:
> Failed to fetch
> http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/archive/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
> Failed to fetch
> http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/archive/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>
Right, I missed compression option, now it's ok...
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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