RE: change of ghostscript download site (mxe-octave)

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 7:07 AM
> To: John Donoghue; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: change of ghostscript download site (mxe-octave)
> 
> > From: John Donoghue
> 
> > To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA "octave-maintainers> Cc:
> > Date: 2016/5/2, Mon 19:29
> > Subject: Re: change of ghostscript download site (mxe-octave)
> >
> > On 05/01/2016 08:15 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> >>>  From: John Donoghue
> >>>  To: octave-maintainers Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> >>>  Cc:
> >>>  Date: 2016/5/2, Mon 07:19
> >>>  Subject: Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 122, Issue 1
> >>>>    As a workaround I only change the download site.
> >>>>
> >>>>   http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>    Tatsuro
> >>>
> >>>  mxe-octave is now updated for the change in download paths
> >>>
> >>>  ghostscript requires more than just updating the version and
> >>> checksum  for version updates, as it also uses makefiles and config
> >>> files  generated from native built ghostscript in order to set
> >>> everything up  correctly.
> >>>
> >>>  See src/ghostscript-mingw-* files in mxe-octave.
> >>>
> >>  Thank  for the commit.
> >>  I have execute hg pull and hg update and re re-configure and make
> >>
> >>  [download] ghostscript
> >>
> >>  Wrong checksum of package ghostscript!
> >>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>    28150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 344K
> > 0s
> >>    28200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 586K
> > 0s
> >>    28250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 6.98M
> > 0s
> >>    28300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 4.37M
> > 0s
> >>    28350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 4.94M
> > 0s
> >>    28400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%
> >> 611K
> > 0s
> >>    28450K .......... .......... .........                       100%
> > 223K=33s
> >>  2016-05-02 09:04:01 (862 KB/s) - written to stdout
> >> [29163348/29163348]
> >>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>  [log]
> > /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-
> w64/log/ghostscript-do
> > wnload
> >>
> >>  I have made a changeset for correcting the checksum.
> >>  (attached)
> >>
> >>  Tatsuro
> > The checksum is correct in the update I had pushed to mxe-octave. It
> > looks like you have changed the file extension from tar.gz to tar.bz2
> >
> > On the committed version it is:
> >
> > PKG             := ghostscript
> > $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
> > $(PKG)_VERSION  := 9.16
> > $(PKG)_CHECKSUM := cc06fbf8244b9e8d0694cee5bf3be5bdd444b888
> > $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION) $(PKG)_FILE     :=
> > $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz $(PKG)_URL      :=
> > http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/$($(PKG)_FILE)
> > $(PKG)_DEPS     := jpeg lcms libpng tiff zlib
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry! Perhaps my cleanup was inadequate and led to the wrong checksum.
> 
> BTW, this is just from curiosity, why are you using tar.gz instead of
tar.bz2?
> As you know, size of *.tar.gz is larger than that of *.tar.bz2.
> 
> Tatsuro

I would imagine no reason except that originally the .mk file used .tar.gz
and so on any update it kept using the same extension.