[csw-users] How can I get blastwave's package sources?

Cory Omand comand at blastwave.org
Thu May 17 06:13:48 CEST 2007


On 5/15/07, Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis at inamo.no> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I am sorry, but I can not find how can I download sources of blastwave
> >> package.
> >> I am interested in patches, configure and build options, and additional
> >> files like SMF manifests.
> >> If there is a key for pkg-get I missed, please excuse me, but I can not
> >> find it.
> >
> > We are still working on a full subversion repository for all sources and
> > build scripts. A lot of information may be found at svn.blastwave.org.  I
> > can put complete sources onto a DVD for you if you so desire but that would
> > be many gigabytes of compressed sources.
>
> Having the signed source tarballs (the upstream sources, not the .pkg
> sources) in a repository on blastwave would be really useful as then I
> would be sure that I would always be able to rebuild the package. I just
> tried to rebuild several blastwave packages yesterday but was unable to
> fetch the upstream sources.

Did you fetch the svn tree to build these packages?  If so, the source
archive is fetched and compared to a "known good" md5sum.  If you just
want to make sure your tarball is the same as the one we're using, you
can have a look in the 'checksums' file in svn for the package in
question.

HTH,
Cory.



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