Bug 881289

Summary:	sci-libs/libcifpp: unversioned archive downloaded
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	cJ <cJ-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description cJ 2022-11-14 11:48:49 UTC

The ebuild is explictly relying on gentoo archival/mirrors to "release" an unversioned file:
 ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers/components.cif.gz
from https://www.wwpdb.org/data/ccd

I suggest the developer to try and communicate with the wwPDB to see if they could improve the revision control of this components database.

Also, when installing the package I also noticed that the components.cif file isn't even installed.

I think it's in the interest of the user to have either a full decoupling of the data (eg. the most recent database is installed as an unmasked -9999 package, if upstream doesn't do solid releases), or to know that the data is from an archive that is doing time-based snapshots of a moving target (eg. explicitly add an external repo providing solid versions, until upstream does it).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-12-04 14:50:43 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d578350ffb974dbc7e320a7fe0dd381a6bb81c82

commit d578350ffb974dbc7e320a7fe0dd381a6bb81c82
Author:     Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-12-04 13:39:19 +0000
Commit:     Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-12-04 14:49:17 +0000

    sci-libs/libcifpp: add 5.0.5
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/881289
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/878893
    Signed-off-by: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>

 sci-libs/libcifpp/Manifest              |  2 ++
 sci-libs/libcifpp/libcifpp-5.0.5.ebuild | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)