Re: [Chicken-hackers] Making chicken-install amenable to automation

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 10 Jun 2009, at 9:40 am, Timothy Beyer wrote:

> At Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:53:47 +0200,
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
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> > Timothy Beyer wrote:
> > > The non-versioned egg files makes adding chicken packages to
> > > FreeBSD ports a challenge, similar to the situation you describe
> > > on NetBSD.  (there was a special mirror noted somewhere in the
> > > thread "Egg filename versioning" by Leonardo Valeri Manera, but I
> > > don't think anything became of it)  The only real alternative that
> > > I can think of (which would be "versioned") would be subversion
> > > checkouts during the fetch phase, but I seriously doubt that any
> > > of the BSDs or any of the source-based Linux distributions can do
> > > such a task in an elegant or standardized way.
> >
> > If you have a user-definable fetch function (or abuse another phase
> > for that
> > purpose) than you can do svn checkouts in your packages. This is
> > easy to do and
> > supported in Gentoo. For example, you can install all of KDE-4 head
> > from svn via
> > packages if that's what you want.
> >
> > Anyway, everything that Alaric explained also holds for Gentoo.
>
> I'll retract that statement, I'm not as familiar with Gentoo as I am
> with the BSDs.  Apparently it isn't even true for FreeBSD. (though
> it's not really encouraged by the community).

Unless it's a special "developer package called foo-current", I'm
leary of having packages build from svn/cvs/etc...

After all, a package is meant to refer to a specific version of the
software (that can be checksummed!). Yeah, you could check out a
specific revision and then do a file-tree checksum - but it's easier
to just create a tarball somewhere, which can then take advantage of
the ease of HTTP mirroring and caching.

As it stands, henrietta.cgi will, if asked nicely, spit out a single
file representing a whole egg at a given revision. See:

http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/henrietta.cgi?name=defstruct&version=1.1

I'm not sure offhand if chicken-install will take such a file from the
filesystem and just install it, though! But the feature would be
easily added.

> Tim


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