Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Release 18 or 20?

[Martin Costabel]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> >Did someone move away the 10.0.0.18-1 and 10.0.0.20-1 texmacs
> >releases=20=
> >
> >from the ftp site?
>
>
> Yes, me; they moved to "old-targz" instead of "targz".
>
>
> >If so, could someone put the 10.0.0.20-1 again, so that Fink users=20
> >could download it?
>
>
> Done, but they will be renamed later.
> It is better to be careful with making this types of links.

Fink does not have its own source repository. Its package descriptions 
point to the URLs of the sources on the net. So it is quite natural that 
when the sources get moved, there is a brief period during which fink's 
automatic download-and-compile procedure will not work. Usually this 
gets fixed rather quickly once the maintainer is alerted. During the 
transition period, the user can download the source manually from 
wherever it has moved to.

Fink now even has a FAQ entry on this subject, FAQ 3.24.

In the case at hand, moving the original sources back to where they were 
before was actually not the good solution. Normally I would change the 
package descriptions in CVS now that I have been alerted by Michèle, but 
I cannot do this, because the sources are now *only* in targz and not in 
old-targz.

So while this works now for Michèle, it will again break as soon as 
Joris moves them definitely into old-targz, unless someone notifies me 
again and I am available to make the change.

--
Martin