The attached ebuild is an update for a new snapshot that the amulet group at manchester just released. Included is the appropriate patch as well to make the install "gentoo friendly". This has been tested on several machines within our research group sucessfully and I'd encourage this to be committed directly into stable to replace the version that is very outdated.
Created attachment 7174 [details] lard-20030109.ebuild Updated ebuild
Created attachment 7175 [details, diff] lard-20030109-configure.patch Configure patch to make the install Gentoo Friendly
Hi Dave. Thank you for the submission! On making it stable: we are now in a feature freeze and I cannot arbitrarily change stable profile. Does this snapshot fix any bugs or is it just a feature release? George
The old version had tons of outstanding bugs that this fixes as well as a heck of a lot of new features. This is an actively developed academic project so it changes much more rapidly than a standards open source project. I understand about the freeze so if you could pop both this and the tbass ebuilds in to unstable for x86 and sparc that would be great. i haven't tested on mips yet, so don't include that guy... thanks dave
Hi Dave. Ok, I tested the ebuild (and update), seems to work ok. However I am afraid the naming might pose a problem in the future. As I understand this is just a snapshot and future release is going to be named something like 2.0.15? The snapshot "version" is considered to be greater than 2.0.14 and thus will be seen as an update. However when 2.0.15 (or whatever 2.x) is released that number will not be seen as a greater one and therefore this will not be visible as an update. In view of this, should I perheaps call this 2.0.15_beta1 or _pre1? (small name mangling inside is all what will be needed). In such case what should a suffix be _alpha1, _beta1 or _pre1? George
It will be rare that I update for an actual release that is no longer just a cvs snapshot from a certain date. The next version of lard out will actually be 3.x by the way because there are so many changes being made. I wouldn't worry about the versioning as snopshots are what will be made for the foreseeable future and 3.x will be the series number when we get around to an official release anytime soon. The same can be said for balsa (tbass) (which is already in the 3.x series)
Hi Dave. Thanks, that resolves it. I have committed the ebuild, please test. George
db fix
