On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:30:06 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL: > > > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz > > One of my packages, gnome-password-generator, does not follow this. It > uses http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnome-password/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz > > Is it fine? Sure. Macros in there are just out of convenience for the packager. Being able to point a non-interactive download tool (e.g. curl, wget) and fetch the tarball [from one of sourceforge's servers] directly is the goal. With other urls, the interactive SF.net mirror chooser makes that impossible. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
