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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:25:58 -0400
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Florian Manschwetus" <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: gentoo ebuild for compat wireless (resend)
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	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Florian Manschwetus
<florianmanschwetus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Florian Manschwetus schrieb:
>
>
> > Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>  >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Florian Manschwetus
>  >> <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de> wrote:
>  >>> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Florian Manschwetus
>  >>>  > <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de> wrote:
>  >>>  >> is it possible to get a version appendix on the tar.bz?
>  >>>  >>  so it should be easy to get a working ebuild fpr this.
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > The problem is there's two things to "version", compat-wireless
>  >>> itself
>  >>>  > and Linux. I keep both version already as part of the tarball.
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > wireless@sipsolutions:~$ cat compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release
>  >>>  > 2.8-49-gfe0f268
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > wireless@sipsolutions:~$ cat compat-wireless-2.6/git-describe
>  >>>  > v2.6.25-rc5-2623-g7556b76
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > You can also just pull these from the directory that was used to
>  >>>  > create the tarball:
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  >
>  >>> http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release
>  >>>
>  >>>  >
>  >>> http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6/git-describe
>  >>>
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > Does this suffice?
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Not really but it gives a version hint, could you create a symlink or
>  >>> so?
>  >>>  a url like that would be fine:
>  >>>  http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.8-49.tar.bz2
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> The problem is that does not reflect changes to Linux so there may be
>  >> a lot of great code added and yet this wouldn't reflect it. And if we
>  >> go with git-describe for Linux we could get updates on compat-wireless
>  >> itself during no code changes on Linux. I could use date (date -I),
>  >> that might work best but will it work for you?
>  > a date would be perfect (f.e. -20080325)
>  > florian
>  Ok, i got a working ebuild, no i need an regular accessible download
>  source with "solid" filenames e.g. the date appendix, then i could
>  publish it as testing package.

Does this work for you?

http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2008-03-25.tar.bz2

Note that I'll delete all old tarballs when generating a new one for
the new date. This happens at 05:10am UTC.

  Luis