Hi debian-mentors, I have this URL for downloading a package:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/index.php?s=downloads When you click on the link for downloading the application it sends you to: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/1.1.1p1/mpich2-1.1.1p1.tar.gz So I thought that If I was able to make uscan look into http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/ I'd get the last version of the package checked correctly. I have this in debian/watch: # Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file version=3 http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/(\d\.\d)/mpich2-(.*)\.tar\.gz Which is wrong,because it gives me this as result: muam...@obey:~/src/main/libs/mpich2/mpich2$ uscan --report Processing watchfile line for package mpich2... Newest version on remote site is 1.1, local version is 1.1+dfsg.1 mpich2: remote site does not even have current version muam...@obey:~/src/main/libs/mpich2/mpich2$ So, as can be seen the version that uscan sees with my debian/watch file is version 1.1 while the current one is 1.1.1p1. The other error I see is that the local version the +dfsg.1 is taken in account. I know I can avoid this by mangling that debian version part¹. Reading the uscan's manual I saw this: # The filename is found by taking the last component of the URL and # removing everything after any '?'. If this would not make a usable # filename, use filenamemangle. For example, # <A href="http://foo.bar.org/download/?path=&download=foo-0.1.1.tar.gz";> # could be handled as: # opts=filenamemangle=s/.*=(.*)/$1/ \ # http://foo.bar.org/download/\?path=&download=foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz # # <A href="http://foo.bar.org/download/?path=&download_version=0.1.1";> # could be handled as: # opts=filenamemangle=s/.*=(.*)/foo-$1\.tar\.gz/ \ # http://foo.bar.org/download/\?path=&download_version=(.*) # The option downloadurlmangle can be used to mangle the URL of the file # to download. This can only be used with http:// URLs. This may be # necessary if the link given on the webpage needs to be transformed in # some way into one which will work automatically, for example: # opts=downloadurlmangle=s/prdownload/download/ \ # http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2051 \ # http://prdownload.berlios.de/softdevice/vdr-softdevice-(.*).tgz I made some tries with each of them, but I always got no matches :(. How can I reach the correct version for this package? I still try it. If someone could help me I'd appreciate it. Thanks for reading, 1. Mangling debian version # Similarly, the upstream part of the Debian version number can be # mangled: opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg\.\d+$// \ -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. GPG Key = 127029F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
