Bug 89124

Summary:	[REQ] Snapshot download on demand
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) <kugelfang>
Component:	Catalyst	Assignee:	Gentoo Catalyst Developers <catalyst>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-14 12:48:17 UTC

Please add an automatic download of the most recent snapshot to catalyst.

Proposed implementation:
Enhance the "snapshot" item handler to understand URLs and point it to $SNAPSHOT.
On each run of catalyst, the file $SNAPSHOT.md5 is downloaded and the currently
used snapshot will be compared against the md5sum. If it doesn't match, redownload
$SNAPSHOT.

Comment 1 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-19 12:03:49 UTC

According to Chris, this can cause issues with gcc being recompiled etc.  If 
you want to fight for this to be included convince him.