[Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Daniel Bünzli]

Hello,  

I'm trying to setup my own repo over http. 

It seems that opam insists in downloading the archives from $URLTOREPO/archives. Why doesn't it use the url mentionned in $PACKAGE/url ? What's the rationale ?

Best,

Daniel 

Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

Hi,

> It seems that opam insists in downloading the archives from $URLTOREPO/archives. Why doesn't it use the url mentionned in $PACKAGE/url ? What's the rationale ?

OPAM servers work as proxy: when a client ask for a source archive, it first serves the one stored locally and if not present, look at the one upstream. So if you don't want to cache the archives, clean-up $URLREPO/archives. This can be used to build a stand-alone local repository which can be used without internet access.

See [1] for a discussion on that topic.

Best,
Thomas

[1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/39

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> Daniel 
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Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le lundi, 11 février 2013 à 10:17, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :

> OPAM servers work as proxy: when a client ask for a source archive, it first serves the one stored locally and if not present, look at the one upstream. So if you don't want to cache the archives, clean-up $URLREPO/archives.

That's what I thought but there seems to be a bug in the mechanism. Reported here [1]

Daniel

P.S. I don't want to bother too much the caml-list with opam question. Time for a list ?  

[1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/452

Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> P.S. I don't want to bother too much the caml-list with opam question. Time for a list ?  

I'm not very fond of having hundreds of mailing-list, so I think that's a good idea to use platform@list.ocaml.org (which has been primary created for this purpose).

You can also open issues on github, they are easily searchable.

--
Thomas

Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le lundi, 11 février 2013 à 12:47, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
> I'm not very fond of having hundreds of mailing-list, so I think that's a good idea to use platform@list.ocaml.org (mailto:platform@list.ocaml.org) (which has been primary created for this purpose).

Ok.
> You can also open issues on github, they are easily searchable.

Ok but there's a difference between an issue and a question in my opinion. A question may not necessarily be an issue with opam. Unless you specifically want us to use the issue tracker for questions aswell.  

Best,

Daniel

Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Gabriel Scherer]

Unfortunately, that's the route most github projects take: you
interact with them through the issues tracker.
I regret the mailing-list with archives and well-understood process
(... and running on free software stacks), but the convenience for
developers to discuss design questions, comment on tentative commits
and hastily merge changes in a single unified clicky interface is
manifest. Before someone develops a Firefox,Chrome,whatever extension
doing "oh this looks like a commit URL let's add an option to find the
corresponding repo of mine and pull it there in one click", you're
going to have to adapt to the {github,bitbucket,gitorious,gitlab}
interfaces.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Bünzli
<daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
> Le lundi, 11 février 2013 à 12:47, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
>> I'm not very fond of having hundreds of mailing-list, so I think that's a good idea to use platform@list.ocaml.org (mailto:platform@list.ocaml.org) (which has been primary created for this purpose).
>
> Ok.
>> You can also open issues on github, they are easily searchable.
>
> Ok but there's a difference between an issue and a question in my opinion. A question may not necessarily be an issue with opam. Unless you specifically want us to use the issue tracker for questions aswell.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
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Re: [Caml-list] opam http repo, archive downloading

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

As Thomas noted, this list:
http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform

is available for OPAM-related questions that aren't appropriate
for the tracker. We've got lots of developments planned for OPAM to
better support the upcoming Platform, and that's the place to
discuss broader issues.

However, I'd suggest sticking to Github for feature requests that
might be bugs, as it's easy to cross-reference them and keep track
of what's going on.  You should assume that mails to a list won't
have anyone act on them, whereas issues always get a response.

-anil

On 11 Feb 2013, at 13:10, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, that's the route most github projects take: you
> interact with them through the issues tracker.
> I regret the mailing-list with archives and well-understood process
> (... and running on free software stacks), but the convenience for
> developers to discuss design questions, comment on tentative commits
> and hastily merge changes in a single unified clicky interface is
> manifest. Before someone develops a Firefox,Chrome,whatever extension
> doing "oh this looks like a commit URL let's add an option to find the
> corresponding repo of mine and pull it there in one click", you're
> going to have to adapt to the {github,bitbucket,gitorious,gitlab}
> interfaces.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Bünzli
> <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
>> Le lundi, 11 février 2013 à 12:47, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
>>> I'm not very fond of having hundreds of mailing-list, so I think that's a good idea to use platform@list.ocaml.org (mailto:platform@list.ocaml.org) (which has been primary created for this purpose).
>> 
>> Ok.
>>> You can also open issues on github, they are easily searchable.
>> 
>> Ok but there's a difference between an issue and a question in my opinion. A question may not necessarily be an issue with opam. Unless you specifically want us to use the issue tracker for questions aswell.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
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