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<p>Reverted edit of As7We2, changed back to last version by Dmacks</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Fink_Header}}<br /> <br /> All the &lt;code&gt;*Source*&lt;/code&gt;-related fields are a pain to parse, can lead to a messy .info. We could cluster all fields for a given source &quot;item&quot;. Easy to add new features (dmalloc wants stronger checksums) without making even more of a top-level fieldname mess. <br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;SourceFile: &lt;&lt;<br /> Source: http://whatever<br /> Rename: %n-%v.tar.gz<br /> MD5: whatever<br /> &lt;&lt;<br /> SourceFile2: &lt;&lt;<br /> Source: http://whatever<br /> Rename: %n-%v.tar.gz<br /> MD5: whatever<br /> &lt;&lt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Easy to extend to patchfiles (for example, [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=979713&amp;group_id=17203&amp;atid=367203 MD5 for patchfiles] is a longstanding request).&lt;pre&gt;PatchFile: &lt;&lt;<br /> Source: foo.patch<br /> MD5: whatever<br /> &lt;&lt;<br /> PatchFile2: &lt;&lt;<br /> Source: foo-ssl.patch<br /> MD5: whatever<br /> &lt;&lt;&lt;/pre&gt;The full path to each file would be available as a %-exp and &lt;code&gt;%a&lt;/code&gt; would be abolished. That way only files that have passed the MD5 check would be usable.<br /> <br /> ===Extensions===<br /> <br /> * &lt;i&gt;vasi:&lt;/i&gt;<br /> :It would be nice to have a patch folder per package rather than one monster patch.<br /> :*&lt;i&gt;dmacks:&lt;/i&gt;<br /> ::This is already possible (subdirs in %a), and I expect that way would continue to work correctly with the new syntax. One can already even cluster [.info and its .patch] in its own %n subdir.<br /> <br /> * &lt;i&gt;drm&lt;/i&gt;: (on [http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=979713 Feature Requests Tracker])<br /> :Make the application of the patches part of the default Patch field instead of an automatic action triggered by the mere presence of the patchfile field (whatever it's called).<br /> <br /> * &lt;i&gt;vasi&amp;dmacks&lt;/i&gt;: (on #fink?)<br /> :Have a &quot;Substitutions&quot; field in the PatchFile* that lists regexps to apply to the patchfile before applying it to the source tree. That way we can devise a clean solution to the pipefail that plagues the standard &quot;sed ... | patch&quot; approach.<br /> <br /> * We should probably deprecate implicit source around the time we do this. That feature has not been used in 10.4T ever, or 10.3 or 10.2-gcc3.3 in at least a year. This is an annoying special case to support IMO...it means we need hacks like Source:none and Type:nosource instead of just treating &quot;no source listed means there is no Source&quot;.<br /> <br /> {{Fink_Header}}<br /> <br /> [[Category: Fink|New Feature Plans XMLish Source]]<br /> [[Category: Fink_Roadmap|New Feature Plans XMLish Source]]<br /> [[Category: Fink_Infofile_Syntax|New Feature Plans XMLish Source]]</div>

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