[Fedora-packaging] Emphasize correct hostname for SF.net URLs

[Michael Schwendt]

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