[GRASS5] Re: binaries upload

[Scott Mitchell]

OK, done.  The "bindist" target now creates a binary installer script 
that has the full version in its filename instead of just $NAME_VER 
("grass5").  Therefore there will be unique installers for 5.0.3, 
5.3-cvs, etc.

I can't imagine how that would cause troubles for anyone, but am 
copying this to the list just in case...

Scott Mitchell
smitch at mac.com

On Nov 17, 2003, at 10:45, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:39:28AM -0500, Scott W Mitchell wrote:
>> Actually, the install script created by make bindist does not contain
>> the release info in its file name, only the platform, so the same name
>> is used for the script for 5.0.3 and 5.3-cvs
>> (grass5_powerpc...._install.sh).  That is why I created tar files to
>> bundle together the right script with each .tar.gz file, to avoid
>> overwriting the script from a previous upload.
>
> Aha!
>
>> Alternatively, I could manually rename the script files with the
>> release number in it to keep them separate, OR perhaps it would be 
>> good
>> to alter the build process so that the install script is uniquely 
>> named
>> like the tarball is ?
>
> Better to change the build process to avoid such problems.
> Since we cannot change 5.0.3 any more, we could change 5.3. Then
> we know that the script without the version number is the old
> one.
>
> The script also contains the size of the tarball, so that's a second
> trick to distinguish them.
>
>