Re: urls.txt-- format change?

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool! It's a tiny bit broken under Linux with git repositories
https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/77

...but I think I've fixed it with my avsm/opam fix-linux-dir-cp branch.  Am 
doing a release of cstruct so we have versions of whatever we have right now 
too.

-anil

On 25 Aug 2012, at 12:02, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas.gazagnaire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> btw you can init & remote -add github repo addresses directly
> 
> --
> Thomas
> 
> 
> Le 25 août 2012 à 20:28, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
>> I've done a really quick re-jig of the repositories, so you can try:
>> 
>> $ opam init http://mirage.github.com/opam-0.4
>> $ opam remote -add local http://mirage.github.com/opam-0.4-dev
>> $ opem install lwt # due to a bug in the package files
>> $ opam install mirage
>> 
>> I'm still finishing up the dev conversion (a bit later today) and will get 
>> mirage-www building with it (wont take too long).  It's probably easier to 
>> clone the repos yourself (mirage/opam-repository and mirage/opam-repo-dev) 
>> and run "opam-mk-repo" yourself for now.
>> 
>> -anil
>> 
>> On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:21, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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