Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:54:41PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> Vincent Untz schrieb:
> > Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 14:41 +0100, Stefan Kost a écrit :
> >> hej,
> >>
> >> one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org.  
> >> Does anyone knows how to handle 'foo-X.Y.news' and 'foo-X.Y.changes'?  
> >> Some modules have those files in the ftp directories and it improves  
> >> the generated newsfeed on http://download.gnome.org/LATEST.xml.
> > 
> > The news file is automatically generated with a diff on NEWS between the
> > previous release and the newly installed release. I believe it's not
> > created for a .0 release since it creates the directory and so there's
> > no previous release in this directory. This could be improved, I guess.
> 
> It takes the NEWS file from the archive? I release gtk-doc-1.9 and 1.10 sofar 
> (1.10 yesterday) and I neither got .news nor a .changes file generated. Bother 
> we no .0 release. Hrmpf. I found out what goes wrong. gtk-doc releases use 
> versions like 1.9, 1.10, 1.11. The script creates new dirs for each release and 
> belives its a .0 release, which is wrong as its not 1.10.0.
> 
> I think for releases with such a numbering scheme this:
> MAJMIN=$(echo $VERSION | sed "s#\([[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\).*#\1#")
> LOCATION=$FTPROOT/sources/$MODULE/$MAJMIN
> should be
> MAJ=$(echo $VERSION | sed "s#\([[:digit:]]\+\.*#\1#")
> LOCATION=$FTPROOT/sources/$MODULE/$MAJ

Install-module is not the only place where x.y.z is expected. I'm
planning to rewrite install-module in Python and hopefully I can add
something that handles the .0 case; together with .exe files.

Note that it will be much stricter than currently (you can easily
re-release the same version number).

-- 
Regards,
Olav