Re: uscan - inherit version number of component from main package (SVN)
On 2023-10-08 Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster@outlook.com> wrote:
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> Try this in your d/watch file:
[...]
> # netpbm-free user guide
> opts="mode=svn, pgpmode=none, \
> component=userguide" \
> https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/userguide \
> HEAD ignore
> ----
> You want to match against HEAD to download the most recent version,
> and specify the 'ignore' keyword to avoid restricting the secondary
> tarball version.
"ignore" was the missing piece. Thanks!
> You'll probably want to adjust the userguide tarball name (not the
> symlink) with filenamemangle.
The default version (netpbm-free-0.0~svn4637.tar.xz) looks as good as
any other static string I can think of. Only $version_found_for_netpbm-free
would be a real (but minimal) improvement, but that seems to be impossible.
cu Andreas
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