Hi, On Ter, 2016-10-11 at 13:03 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "MV" == Mattia Verga <mattia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > MV> - I've upgraded the source to latest svn from Github. From > packaging > MV> guidelines, when using github for downloading a specific > commit, > MV> the source url should be: > MV> Source0: > MV> https://github.com/OWNER/%{name}/archive/%{commit0}.tar.gz#/%{nam > e}-%{shortcommit0}.tar.gz > MV> but such a link will download a source named > MV> %{name}-%{commit0}.tar.gz (with full commit in the name instead > of > MV> shortcommit). Is there an error in guidelines, or am I missing > MV> something? > > It's not an error; it's just that there's no way to get the tarball > name > we want out of github. The portion after '#/' just has to match > whatever you name the tarball after you download it, so that rpmbuild > can find it. > > Still, nothing really cares what the tarball is named as long as it's > there. To be fair I don't know why there's such emphasis on having > %name in the tarball name. I'll try to remember to bring that up at > a > packaging committee meeting at some point. > > Github does now provide an easier way for releases which were tagged, > though; that change will be going into the guidelines soon. (As soon > as > I can get around to it, that is.) https://github.com/OWNER/%{name}/archive/%{commit0}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{shortcommit0}.tar.gz ; could be simplified to : https://github.com/OWNER/%{name}/archive/%{commit0}/%{name}-%{shortcommit0}.tar.gz ; if you update guidelines with it, I would be grateful. Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
