Re: tarball URL conventions and sptools

Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> How does sp-download handle dependencies?

It doesn't, yet.  There is no standard for expressing dependencies
yet.

> Maybe simply either a symlink (or copy), e.g.
> daemontools.tar.bz2 -> daemontools-0.76.tar.bz2
> or a file named, e.g. current, which contains the newest current
> version, e.g. '0.76'.

Something like the file would be better: that way, we would not have
to rename the tarball after downloading it, and we would not have to
unpack it to find out what version it is.


paul