Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Olav Vitters schrieb:
> 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).
Thanks for the info. Will a X.Y version scheme be supported, or should I better 
switch to a X.Y.Z scheme?

Stefan