Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: gnutls in the external dependencies for 2.17 and 2.19]]

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Hi Carlos,

On 4/2/07, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br> wrote:
> This is the answear of the maintainer of the gnutls module about it's
> download location.
>
> Hope this help make the Dependencies content in the wiki more
> consistent!

Thanks for tracking this down.  I've updated the jhbuild moduleset and
the wiki pages to use the official http download locations.  :)

Cheers,
Elijah

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Josefsson <simon josefsson org>
> To: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:39:51 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: gnutls in the external dependencies for 2.17 and 2.19]
> Hi!
>
> If you click 'Download' on http://www.gnutls.org/ you get to:
>
> ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/
>
> Which is the official FTP distribution point.
>
> The canonical HTTP distribution point is:
>
> http://www.gnutls.org/releases/ ->
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/releases/
>
> The links you mention are mirrors of the two respectively directories,
> the alpha link is a mirror of ftp://ftp.gnutls.org (see README.Mirror
> in the mirror directory on gnupg.org) and the other link appear to be
> a mirror of the HTTP directory.  The latter link doesn't seem to have
> the sub-directories, therefor I wouldn't rely on it.
>
> I have tried to make this more clear on:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html
>
> Do you still think this is confusing?  Any specific ideas to improve
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
> Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br> writes:
>
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > I'm sending to you an e-mail about the gnutls link in the GNOME wiki
> > page about dependencies and there are some confusions.
> >
> > Some gnutls tarballs are in: http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnutls/ while
> > others are in http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/
> >
> > There is any plan to organize it better? Could you point the correct
> > locations, and what will be supported, to download gnutls and related
> > modules?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Carlos.
> >
> > From: "Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>
> > Subject: Re: gnutls in the external dependencies for 2.17 and 2.19
> > To: "Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes" <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>
> > Cc: release-team gnome org
> > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:06:43 -0600
> >
> > On 3/23/07, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The right address for gnutls isn't is
> >
> > you have me slightly confused there...
> >
> >> http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnutls/ instead of
> >> http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/
> >
> > If I recall correctly, http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnutls/ was gone at
> > one point and only http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/ actually
> > worked, forcing GARNOME and jhbuild to use it instead.  Not sure what
> > the current status is.  I noticed that libtasn1 is only available from
> > the alpha url.  I'd feel better about updating pages if we had some
> > official site stating which urls are stable and where things will be
> > placed.  Right now, I don't even know if there is one given our past
> > experience.
> >
> >> I don't update this, because I don't know if I can and because I don't
> >> if there is any issue with the first addres, since the gnutls-1.4.0
> >> doesn't exist in the second address and the guys of GARNOME or jhbuild
> >> doesn't correct this yet.
> >
> > Could I get you to try to figure out the correct download locations
> > for all gnutls related modules, hopefully including some kind of
> > upstream declaration of what is "correct" and what will be supported?
> > I'd prefer to just leave things as they are until we have all of that.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up,
> > Elijah
> > ----------