On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:08:29 +0100, Till wrote: > > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SourceURL_sourceforge_downloads_admonition > > > > Hmm, what I have in several of my packages is > > Source: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz > > > > Is this deprecated or likely to disappear? The prdownloads url lways pointed at the graphical/interactive mirror selection web page, as far as I know. It never was compatible with direct downloading via wget (spectool!) or curl. > Probably only the people at sourceforge know. All I know is that I only > remember problems with all other URLs except for the recommended URL. Sort of. Years ago, dl.sf.net (the short version of download.sf.net) used to work really fine as a DNS-based mirror chooser, but has suffered from increasing problems later when some of the mirror hosts started to time out often. $ host dl.sf.net|wc -l 14 downloads.sf.net on the other hand points at a single IP. $ host downloads.sf.net|wc -l 1 -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
