46648 – automake 1.8.3 downloads a whole bunch of tarballs?

Bug 46648 - automake 1.8.3 downloads a whole bunch of tarballs?

Summary: automake 1.8.3 downloads a whole bunch of tarballs?

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2004-04-02 16:33 UTC by Arlo
Modified:	2004-04-02 20:33 UTC (History)
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Description Arlo 2004-04-02 16:33:23 UTC

>>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.8.3.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.7.9.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.5.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u automake


Expected Results:  
Shouldn't there only be one tarball from one version of automake?

Maybe I'm just ignorant but this seems odd to me.

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-02 20:33:47 UTC

it's correct and expected behaviour.  A lot of autotools based build scripts rely on different versions of the tools to be present.  And there are incompatibilities that exist between the various versions of the scripts/tools which cause build failures.