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

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Cory Omand wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Sure, but the problem is that the sources might be unavailable for many
>> reasons like a new release was made and the old release was
>> removed/moved or server is offline or even gone. I would like to have an
>> assurance of that when I build a package I build from the *exact* same
>> sources as the one in the archive was built. I bet that today it is
>> practically impossible to rebuild any Blastwave release older than a
>> year or even a half year.
> 
> Is the sort og thing that you would want ?

I didn't quite grok this.

> If YES is the answer then when would you like to proceed on this project ?

I would like to contribute yes.

> If you can not dedicate resources and time to that project then please
> submit your requirements to me for review and I will put it on the todo
> list.

Realistically I will not have a lot of time for this until late fall as 
I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. I can gather 
some requirements and make a solution outline, but will not have the 
hardware or time to contribute *now*. I would also like to know that 
there is some support within the Blastwave community to support this, I 
would hate to use a lot of time on something that the community doesn't 
want to support.

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Trygve