Re: pkg/42819 (databases/ruby-activeldap distfile checksum error)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42819; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, taca%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42819 (databases/ruby-activeldap distfile checksum error)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:30:51 +0700

     Date:        Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:10:23 +0900 (JST)
     From:        Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20100216.211023.71560628.taca%back-street.net@localhost>
 
   | It is true that it looks like format revbump but dependency change
   | affects content of binary package.
 
 Yes, I understand - my point was that no-one but you could
 have ever seen one of the earlier version binary packages.
 For all the rest of us, the earlier one never existed.
 
 The revbump though is (aside from making an uglier package name) entirely
 harmless, the DIST_SUBDIR causes (caused) those of us who had fetched
 the distfile earlier and gotten the new one to have to fetch it again,
 for no particularly good purpose - so when it is acceptable to avoid that
 (when no-one using pkgsrc could possibly have gotten the earlier
 distfile), I'd generally avoid using a DIST_SUBDIR.   Use it when any
 pkgsrc user could have fetched the earlier version (when the master site
 changes it after the package exists, for example.)   The existence of the
 old distfile on ftp.netbsd.org is going to be a guarantee that a DIST_SUBDIR
 is needed, its absence is a hint that it might not be.
 
 kre