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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.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
ikiwiki_3.20101129.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20101201.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20101231.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110105.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110122.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110123.tar.gz
ikiwiki_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]]

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]]