Re: urls.txt-- format change?

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas has done an epic set of changes in 0.4 which totally re-do the package 
format to be more sensible, and adds checksums for packages, and removes the 
need for a separate dev repository.

In the very short term, you can run 'opam-convert-repo-0.3' to the new format 
on an existing repo, and here are the instructions Thomas sent me earlier to 
add a new package.

1. git clone git://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository.git
2. git remote -add local opam-repository
3. cd opam-repository/packages/
4. cp -r batteries.1.4.3 mlorg.xxx
5. [edit mlorg.xxx/descr with the right description]
6. [edit mlorg.xxx/url with the right archive name and checksum]
7. opam update
[normally it should have picked the new mlorg package]
8. opam install mlorg
9. [in case of error, edit mlorg.xxx/opam and goto 7]

In the new world order, you can simply add a 'url: "git://foo"' to the url file 
in a package, rather than the separate setup we had before.  I guess we need to 
maintain a fork for now with our dev packages, so I am running the conversion 
script right now to update mirage.github.com.

This is hopefully the last of the big packaging changes (also famous last 
words).

-anil

On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:16, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm hitting a problem reinstalling the mirage stuff via opam which I think is 
> caused by a urls.txt format change. If you compare
> 
> http://opam.ocamlpro.com/urls.txt
> 
> with
> 
> http://mirage.github.com/opam/urls.txt
> 
> it looks like a re-arrangement. The error I get with "opam init default ..." 
> is consistent with it mis-parsing the file.
> 
> Anyone know how to regenerate the urls.txt?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Dave Scott
> 
>