Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

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On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to
> all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to
> peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be
> the authoritative web page documenting each RPM package.
>
>   for example, if they wanted to read about "git-extras", a quick
> google search found the site "fedora.pkgs.org", and this page:
>
> https://fedora.pkgs.org/27/fedora-x86_64/git-extras-4.4.0-2.fc27.noarch.rpm.html
>
> which is pretty much what i'm after, but i'm assuming the domain
> "pkgs.org" is not associated with red hat so i'd rather not use
> that.
>
>   a few more seconds and i found the equivalent koji page:
>
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=925511
>
> again, looks good and clearly affiliated with red hat. but as i
> understand it (and i could be wrong), that page is specifically for
> version git-extras-4.4.0-2.fc27 so if that package is updated, the
> link will still point to the older version.
>
>   is there a generic link i can use for a given fedora package that
> will keep up with new versions and just allows students to zip over
> there, read up on the package, and decide whether they want to
> install it to play with it further? thanks muchly.

  whoops, never mind, i backed up a link and found this:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=16360

so i guess that's as good as it's going to get unless someone has a
better suggestion.

rday

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