Re: New tarball but same version

[Michael Schwendt <bugs michael gmx net>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:43:06 +0200, Alain PORTAL wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> An upstream maintener released a new revision but didn't changed the version 
> number. Of course, this is really bad....
> Can I overwrite the tarball in cvs with `make new-sources 
> FILES="same_tarball.tar.bz2"`?

You can upload this changed tarball like that just fine, but the old
tarball will not be overwritten.

Multiple files with the same name but different checksum can _coexist_.
The lookaside is clever enough to store files based on their
(filename,checksum) tuple.