On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:33:49 -0500, Toshio wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:30, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Is an URL which contains macros still an URL? What do you do with an URL > > that contains macros? You can't cut'n'paste it into a browser, because it > > contains macros. So why include protocol, hostname and path in Source > > fields at all? How does the packager fetch a new release? Does he visit > > the web page from bookmarks? Or does he reconstruct a valid URL from > > the macros? > > > Thanks, Michael, that's a great explanation. > > I've got a new scenario to ask about: do any of the autobuilders the > Fedora Project is going to use depend on being able to parse the Source: > line into a URL? I doubt that. --
