| Summary: | automake 1.8.3 downloads a whole bunch of tarballs? | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Arlo <coderarlo> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | trivial | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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. |
>>> 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.