On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > All that has been pointed out is that reviewers appreciate ready-to-use > URLs, which they can cut'n'paste into console or browser to fetch a > tarball from upstream. It has been pointed out that some packagers > tend to obfuscate URLs with macros to a degree that is far from smart, > e.g. > > Source0: http://foo.bar/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}rc1.tar.gz > > and that is bad taste and bad style. Or it turns out, the URL hasn't been > updated or verified in a longer time and is not true anymore. Absolutely true. This is the reason I *always* check URL, Source* and Patch* fields for every new version of my own rpm's by copying/pasting into a browser and/or wget/curl, so I avoid macros in those fields too. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
