[sbopkg-users] sbosrcarch proof of concept patch

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

On 10/29/2015 09:31 AM, B Watson wrote:
> Probably everyone here saw the announcement on the slackbuilds-users
> mailing list about the SBo source archive. If not:
> 
> http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/2015-October/015081.html
> 
> I wrote a couple of client scripts for the archive, that can parse a
> .info file and download the archived sources...
> 
> ...but to make the archive *really* handy to use, it should be supported
> by sbopkg. My original plan was to just look at the sbopkg code to try
> to gauge how difficult this would be to implement... but the code is so
> readable and well-documented that it wasn't hard to just go ahead and
> add simple archive support to it.
> 
> Attached is a proof of concept diff (against the sbopkg-0.37.1 released
> source). As-is, it works fine, but no doubt the sbopkg maintainers will
> see ways it could be improved [*].
> 
> Usage: any time a file fails to download, or its md5sum fails, the prompt
> that asks whether to use it anyway, retry, or cancel now has an A (attempt
> to download from archive) option. For testing, desktop/musca currently
> has a broken download link, and its source file is in the archive already.
> 
> The way it works: constructs a URL such as:
> 
> http://slackware.org.uk/sbosrcarch/by-md5/e/0/e067a8e39b1a97d62fc8e43800edee70/musca-0.9.24.tgz
> 
> (that's a live link, BTW, but stoopid gmail might "helpfully" break
> the line into two)
> 
> ...and replaces the current DOWNLOAD value with that, then falls through
> to the rest of the download loop.
> 
> [*] Actually I can think of a way to improve it: the patch only supports one
> sbosrcarch site. I added a SBOSRCARCH variable to sbopkg.conf, which takes
> just a single URL for a value. Right now there's only one complete SBo
> archive site, so that's OK... but probably it will get mirrored in the
> future, so it might be nice to have it try a list of them, in order. I
> didn't do this in this PoC because it would complicate the code and be
> a likely source of bugs.


Hi

Actually Ryan talked to me this morning (my local time) about adding
support for external site such as sbosrcarch which was introduced in
slackbuilds-users list few days ago and now you posted a patch to really
implement this

my concern is whether this project (sbosrcarch) will be supported for
long term? So far, only one contributor works on that project (B. Watson)

I will try to review the patch as soon as possible, but my work load is
currently rising at this moment

--
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 181 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://sbopkg.org/pipermail/sbopkg-users/attachments/20151029/128ff985/attachment-0001.asc>