I'm in the process of installing ikiwiki on my home page (hooray), and wants to have the newest stable version available. I suppose that's the one on the pristine-tar branch.
You can check out the latest released version with:
git tag # outputs a list of tags
git checkout 3.20110124 # or use the latest one, if different
If you're using git already, there's no need to use pristine-tar,
unless you particularly want a tarball for some reason.
Downloading the tarball from Debian is the other recommended way to
[[download]] the source code. --[[smcv]]
Thanks for your responses, smcv. I'll use that method and install the newest version when I'm more familiar with the way ikiwiki works. For now I'm using version 3.20100122 installed with apt-get. Works great so far, but I'm looking forward to the new install. -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-22 19:30+0100
But I'm unable to recreate the newest .tar file, in fact there's errors in all these .tar.gz files on that branch:
ikiwiki_2.20.tar.gzikiwiki_2.30.tar.gzikiwiki_2.31.1.tar.gzikiwiki_2.46.tar.gzikiwiki_2.47.tar.gzikiwiki_2.48.tar.gzikiwiki_2.49.tar.gzikiwiki_2.50.tar.gzikiwiki_2.51.tar.gzikiwiki_2.62.1.tar.gzikiwiki_2.62.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20101129.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20101201.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20101231.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20110105.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20110122.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20110123.tar.gzikiwiki_3.20110124.tar.gz
The operation fails on these files with a "Checksum validation failed" error from xdelta(1). The pristine-tar(1) version is 1.00, installed with apt-get on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. Is this version too old, or are there some errors on this branch?
I get similar errors on Debian unstable, but not on all of the same versions;
for instance, my ikiwiki_3.20110124.tar.gz is OK. In some cases, xdelta
complains, but the tarball is produced successfully. However, I do see actual
failures for 2.62 and 2.62.1, for instance. --[[smcv]]
Yes, on Debian unstable I got failures on only old ones, but not in
contiguous blocks: --[[Joey]]
ikiwiki_2.20.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.30.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.31.1.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.46.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.47.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.48.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.49.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.50.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.51.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.62.1.tar.gz
ikiwiki_2.62.tar.gz
Probably what would help debug this problem is if someone can
reproduce with one or more of the other ones that do not fail
for me, pass -dk to pristine-tar, and send me a copy of its temp directory
(joey@kitenet.net), and the versions of pristine-tar, tar, gzip.
Then I can compare the good and bad recreated
tarballs and identify the difference. Or pass them to the tar developers,
who have helped before.
The only cause that I can think of is that perhaps tar's output
has changed compared with the version used to create those. The
only tar output change I know of involved filenames that were
exactly 100 bytes long -- and pristine-tar 1.11 works around that
when run with tar 1.25-2 on Debian. FWIW, I am only seeing
this in ikiwiki's pristine-tar info, not other packages'.
(Checked all of debhelper's and alien's and etckeeper's
and pristine-tar's tarballs.) --[[Joey]]
It looks as though I only get the same failures as you, so that's no help
(reassuring, though, since we're presumably both running recent Debian).
sunny256's failure cases might just result from the older tar and pristine-tar
on Ubuntu 10.04? --[[smcv]]
A complete output of the "pristine-tar checkout" of all files is stored on https://gist.github.com/836720 .
For now, I'll download the .tar.gz from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki, or maybe install ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb. Would you recommend using that .deb file on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, or is it Debian-specific? -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-21 08:42+0100
The .deb from Debian unstable is likely to work on Ubuntu; I've
generally been able to compile snapshots on Debian unstable and
install them onto Debian lenny (older than that Ubuntu release)
without modification. If in doubt, build it from source. --[[smcv]]
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