On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:28:33 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > I am seeking advice, or even better guidelines on the issue of unversionned > upstream source. > > There is a dispute which may be seen here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197488 > > The upstream tarball is unversioned, I would like to add the timestamp to > the tarball name to avoid having different tarballs with the same name, in > case upstream wants to do a newer release without modifying the tarball name. > This leads to: > > %define stamp 19981218 > > Source0: uread-%{stamp}.tar.gz > # unversioned upstream source, downloaded with wget -N > # renamed to uread-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz > #Source0: http://www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/~snor007/src/uread.tar.gz > This is fine and acceptable. And I believe some of us have done it like this before. > Jochen objects to that, saying that the Source should be downloadable, like > Source0: http://www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/~snor007/src/uread.tar.gz > > What do you think about that issue? What do you think is best practice > and why? Renaming the tarball is better. It creates a file name which is more unique than if you don't rename it. It also makes collisions in %_sourcedir less likely. And, of course, you want a specific version of the tarball in your src.rpm [but RPM does not offer any way to specify the file checksum like it's possible with the FE lookaside cache]. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
