----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:12:21 AM Subject: Re: How to escape question mark / equality sign in spec's source URI to get proper source name On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 05:01 -0500, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have one source which has the form of (in the last part of it's URI): > "checklist-cce-feed?id=295" (the source doesn't seem to be available otherwise > than via aforementioned query string - or at least I wasn't able to obtain > it's final location past the query => if you known there's a way how to find > out the final file location past the query string would be expanded, let me know). > > For now I present that source URI in the particular spec in it's original form > (including the query string to avoid rpmlint to complain about non-existing > source, and later in the %install moving that source to some more meaningful > name). This works on RHEL5 (maybe question mark / equality sign not having > special meaning there yet?), but not for example at Fedora-19. > > At Fedora 19 rpmbuild strips off the part till equality sign, iow > "checklist-cce-feed?id=" from the source and searches only for '295' => > rpmbuild fails with a complain not being able to find "rpmbuild/SOURCES/295" > file. Maybe use only the name of the source file, and add a comment above explaining that it comes from that URL? You can use "checklist-cce-feed?id=295#nameofthesource.tar.bz2", but I'd say ^ is the best idea. Matt -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct