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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:29:42 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: setup.ini change
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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:51:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:43 AM
>
>> >Chris, can we get that "external-src: other-pkg-name" thing 
>> into upset? 
>> >   (or "other-src" or whatever) Reminder:
>> 
>> It's pretty complicated to add.  If you specify external-src 
>> it will potentially have to add test, prev, curr entries for 
>> the packages.
>> 
>> However, IMO, it makes sense for this option to actually be 
>> passed into setup.ini so that setup.exe can understand that 
>> this is basically a symbolic link rather than a "copy".
>
>Setup doesn't need any changes - the
>source: 
>tag has all the functionality Chuck needs now. It'll only download the
>file once (well, there are some corner cases, but relatively few and far
>between).

I don't think you read Chuck's proposal.  He wants something which
would automatically track version numbers in the referenced *package*.
Saying:

external-source: ../tiff-1.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2

wasn't what he was going for.

He wanted to be able to say:

external-source: tiff

and have something (either setup or upset) figure out that the source for
libtiff-1.3.2-1.tar.bz2 is tiff-1.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2.

I thought that maybe the functionality for this belonged in setup.exe
rather than in upset, i.e., I just pass the option through as is.

cgf