[racket-dev] raco pkg and github

I had originally tried to do that, but Github wasn't providing tar
balls for anything other than branch HEADs and tags. I'm surprised
that it works for you and not for me. Am I just crazy or did you set
something on your repository to make it work?

Jay

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One thing that a few people using `raco pkg` (including myself) have
> found is that when you upload a package to pkg.racket-lang.org that's
> hosted on github, you can easily get checksum errors.
>
> The checksum mismatch happens when the github HEAD has been updated, but
> the checksum on the PNS is out of date. The behavior that I expected was
> that `raco pkg` would just download the commit matching the PNS checksum
> from github and use that.
>
> Is there any design reason to not do that instead?
>
> Attached is a hackish patch that just demonstrates that this is do-able.
> As an example, you can try `raco pkg install sweet-exp`, which will
> install commit fbd09b4be38b rather than the current github HEAD.
>
> Cheers,
> Asumu
>
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