On 07/05/2012 06:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:56 AM, James Tyrer >> wrote: >>> On 07/04/2012 04:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM, James Tyrer >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Did someone like totally forget to release a tarball for: >>>>> "strigi-0.7.6"& "strigi-0.7.7"? >>>> >>>> Running strigi-0.7.7 on Gentoo as part of the stable KDE release. >>>> >>> I presume that there are tarballs on Gentoo then. However, a Google >>> search didn't find them and I don't know how to find bare sources on >>> Gentoo -- but that would still be getting it through a distro. >>> >>> Other distros also have it -- including SRC RPMs. However, there is >>> no actual release tarball from the developers. Where did they get it? >>> >>> Now BLFS has posted Strigi-0.7.7 (2012-07-04) and are suggesting >>> Debian for a download. But that is only a workaround to the problem >>> that there is no release tarball for 0.7.6 and 0.7.7. > >> The Gentoo ebuild for strigi-0.7.7 seems to point to a KDE repository >> so I'm not sure why you think it isn't released but maybe I'm >> misunderstanding you. > > Hmm, it tries to get it from git://anongit.kde.org/strigi Yes, that GIT archive is what I was using for 0.7.6. However, as I said, it is not simple matter to get it there. > only if the > version is 9999, meaning it will fetch the current Git version. For 0.7.7, > it fetches this: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~johu/distfiles/strigi-0.7.7.tar.xz > > Maybe a Gentoo developer also had trouble with the package and so he made > a tarball himself? -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.