[opam-devel] opam repository problems

[Richard Mortier]

On 8 Dec 2013, at 14:02, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2013, at 13:31, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> is anyone else noticing anything?  from what i can currently observe, 
>> 
>> + opam.ocamlpro.org is quite out of date (seems to still give me omd.0.6.0 rather than omd.0.8.2 for example)
>> 
>> + opam.ocaml.org is fine for opam.1.1.0 but has a broken repository for opam.1.0.0
> 
...
> So the summary of all this is that you should be using OPAM 1.1, and only with opam.ocaml.org.  OPAM 1.0 is now deprecated.  I don't think we've done a particularly good job of communicating this on the OPAM website though, so I'd quite like to clarify that.  In particular, if someone was using opam.ocamlpro.com via a non-HTTP remote (e.g. git), then the repo redirect will not kick in.

don't think it's anything to do with non-http remotes. ok-- just to be clear then:

+ we're only interested in opam.1.1.0 *not* in opam.1.0.0

+ the correct default opam repo to use is http://opam.ocaml.org

?

in which case i'm fine, things build under those conditions. but i'll strip out the needless tests from the .travis.yml in at least a few repos; and could you update your ppa sometime so that the default opam remote is opam.ocaml.org rather than opam.ocamlpro.org please?

> Which packages are you blocked on atm?  Sylvain just fixed forge.ocamlcore.org, which also went down last night and broke some packages.

patches to ocaml-cow to support omd (requires omd >= 0.8 or so), required by patches to cowabloga and (soon perhaps) mirage-www (and right now, my new website though noone else need care about that :)

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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