[RFU] lftp-3.7.6-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 14 09:54:00 GMT 2009


On Jan 14 04:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > # 1.5
> > > wget \
> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.5/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Uploaded.
> > 
> > > # 1.7
> > > wget \
> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1.tar.bz2 \
> > >  http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.6-1-src.tar.bz2
> > 
> > This is sort of a problem.  Can you please repack the 1.7 package and
> > rename it to lftp-3.7.6-2?  The release numbers shouldn't collide with
> > the 1.5 package.
> 
> Eh?  Whyso?  They're in different archives, right?

Not quite.  The 1.5 packages are mirrored into the 1.7 release directory
using a unionfs.  So there's a name collision.  It can work out fine
if the uploader does the job right, but it's a bit weird.  Right now
it's better to keep the packages separate by using different subrelease
numbers.


Corinna

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