-I'm in the process of installing ikiwiki on my home page (hooray), and wants to have the newest stable version available. I suppose that's the one on the `pristine-tar` branch. But I'm unable to recreate the newest `.tar` file, in fact there's errors in all these `.tar.gz` files on that branch:
+I'm in the process of installing ikiwiki on my home page (hooray), and wants to have the newest stable version available. I suppose that's the one on the `pristine-tar` branch.
+
+> You can check out the latest released version with:
+>
+> git tag # outputs a list of tags
+> git checkout 3.20110124 # or use the latest one, if different
+>
+> If you're using git already, there's no need to use pristine-tar,
+> unless you particularly want a tarball for some reason.
+>
+> Downloading the tarball from Debian is the other recommended way to
+> [[download]] the source code. --[[smcv]]
+
+>> Thanks for your responses, smcv. I'll use that method and install the newest version when I'm more familiar with the way ikiwiki works. For now I'm using version 3.20100122 installed with apt-get. Works great so far, but I'm looking forward to the new install. -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-22 19:30+0100
+
+But I'm unable to recreate the newest `.tar` file, in fact there's errors in all these `.tar.gz` files on that branch:
* `ikiwiki_2.20.tar.gz`
* `ikiwiki_2.30.tar.gz`
The operation fails on these files with a "Checksum validation failed" error from `xdelta`(1). The `pristine-tar`(1) version is 1.00, installed with `apt-get` on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. Is this version too old, or are there some errors on this branch?
+> I get similar errors on Debian unstable, but not on all of the same versions;
+> for instance, my `ikiwiki_3.20110124.tar.gz` is OK. In some cases, xdelta
+> complains, but the tarball is produced successfully. However, I do see actual
+> failures for 2.62 and 2.62.1, for instance. --[[smcv]]
+
A complete output of the "pristine-tar checkout" of all files is stored on <https://gist.github.com/836720> .
-For now, I'll download the `.tar.gz` from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>, or maybe install `ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb`. Would you recommend using that `.deb` file on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, or is it Debian-specific? -- sunny256 2011-02-21 08:42+0100
+For now, I'll download the `.tar.gz` from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>, or maybe install `ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb`. Would you recommend using that `.deb` file on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, or is it Debian-specific? -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-21 08:42+0100
+
+> The .deb from Debian unstable is likely to work on Ubuntu; I've
+> generally been able to compile snapshots on Debian unstable and
+> install them onto Debian lenny (older than that Ubuntu release)
+> without modification. If in doubt, build it from source. --[[smcv]]
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