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Bug 156122 - missing diffs in download dir
missing diffs in download dir
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Release Engineering
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Jeff Waugh
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-22 03:10 UTC by Mark Carey
Modified: 2007-06-11 21:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Mark Carey 2004-10-22 03:10:22 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Trying to get from 1.4.0 too 1.4.4 (LATEST), only 1.4.3-1.4.4.diff.gz is on the
servers where are 1.4.0-1.4.1.diif.gz and 1.4.1-1.4.2.diff.gz and
1.4.2-1.4.3.diff.gz?



Steps to reproduce:
1. go to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.4/
2. look for *.diff.gz



Actual results:
Only find 1.4.3-1.4.4.diff.gz

Expected results:
All other diff.gz be there like other directories on the server

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2004-11-07 21:13:51 UTC 
Confirming.

Re-assigning to Stric, as suggested on #bugs.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2004-12-15 14:03:36 UTC 
What's causing those missing diffs? IIRC, when doing install-module, it did
display 'generating diff' (or sth. to that effect)...
Comment 3 Tomas Forsman 2004-12-16 07:35:21 UTC 
Seems like install-module isn't doing its thing.. I don't have much to do with
that one, I'm only involved in getting the stuff on window.g.o over to ftp.g.o..
and those diffs doesn't seem to exist on window either.
Comment 4 spark 2004-12-22 15:52:40 UTC 
chpe, there appears to be no diffs for the 1.5 series either... is this expected?
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2004-12-22 18:08:17 UTC 
No, that's unexpected too.
This time I paid attention when I used "install-module" to install the 1.5.3
tarball, and it did say "Creating diffs...". It would appear this is a bug
somewhere in install-module?
Comment 6 Christian Persch 2005-02-13 22:46:50 UTC 
Re-assigning to General component, since there appears to be no product for ftp
bugs nor a matching component or a 'general' component in website product.
Comment 7 Christian Persch 2006-01-01 20:42:48 UTC 
A possible cause might be what I just observed with install-module:

Creating diff between epiphany 1.9.3.1 and 1.9.4...
Binary files differ, discarding diff file...

When I create a diff between those tarballs myself, there are no binary files differing... and arguably just because some binary file (likely an icon) changes it shouldn't throw away the whole diff!
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2007-03-17 18:21:21 UTC 
Moving to releng, since the script is living in our repository.
Comment 9 Jeff Waugh 2007-06-11 21:25:45 UTC 
I designed it to throw away diffs when there are binary file changes, because I don't want unsuspecting users to be left with something different just because they got the patch. The patches are arguably useless these days anyway, because distros all build from tarballs and hardcore users/devels build from tarballs or svn.

I'm closing this WONTFIX for now.