From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26393 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2011 16:40:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 26380 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Sep 2011 16:40:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:40:34 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311032BB047; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9f2LDhbuOggL; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059CF2BAE27; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:40:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E3CCE145615; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:40:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:40:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE Subject: Re: symlink old tarball name to new one Message-ID: <20110912164029.GT12670@adacore.com> References: <4E5F55A9.6080901@embtoolkit.org> <201109110028.37733.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201109110028.37733.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-09/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 > First, autobuilders such as crosstool-NG or buildroot (but also many > others) that need to download the gdb sources now choke on the missing > /legacy/ versions. This is an issue, because existing releases of > these tools are broken. We're very sorry about the inconvenience. I discussed the suggestion of providing symlinks with RMS, and he said that scripts should be fixed instead. I am only the messenger, so please do not shoot me. I tend to agree with RMS, but I admit I do not know about all the scripts out there, and the amount of work that this renaming has created. > Second, the new tarballs were created with an 'a' appended to the > version string, making for example '7.1' being called in fact '7.1a', > but the directory within those tarballs are still named after the real > version, in this case '7.1'. So it is not possible to easily derive > the tarball name from the version string, and then the directory name > from the tarball name. This is intentional. This is the exact same GDB version, we just fixed the sources. The 'a' in the package name is there to indicate that the problem found in those sources has been addressed. Note that we provide an md5.sum file on the sourceware.org FTP. -- Joel