Thanks a lot!
-Igor Gnatenko
On May 25, 2016 7:06 PM, "Tomas Orsava" <torsava@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> The Python Package Index (PyPI) has decided to change the format of the URLs to download tarballs/sources. The new format is not predictable, because part of the URL is a hash of the contents of the file. [0]
>
> This means that for the vast majority of Python packages (those using PyPI to download sources) the Source0 link needs to be updated.
>
> The maintainer can either go to PyPI with each version update and copy the URL containing the hash, or use the new URL redirector provided by PyPI with a predictable format (like the previous one was):
>
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/positional/positional-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> The URL redirector will have longterm support [1], so I believe it's the better choice.
>
>
> Maybe it would be beneficial to also work the change into the RPM rebase-helper [2] which does automatic scratch builds when a new version of software is detected upstream? Does anyone have experience with this project?
>
>
> [0] https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/438/backwards-compatible-un-hashed-package
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/438/backwards-compatible-un-hashed-package#comment-27734791
> [2] https://github.com/phracek/rebase-helper
>
> Great day to all,
> Tomas
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