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

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Jan 14 19:40:26 UTC 2010


On Thursday 14 January 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:08:29 +0100, Till wrote:
> > > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SourceURL_sourceforge
> > > >>_downloads_admonition

This and the "correct" in Subject might be somewhat strongly put:

At the time I researched this a long time ago, there was no official 
documentation from SourceForge blessing the use of any particular URL or 
hostname for direct "wget-like" downloads.  The downloads.sourceforge.net one 
was just the one I found working most reliably, and it eventually found its 
way to the guidelines.

If someone's interested, it wouldn't be a bad idea to browse through the 
SourceForge docs to see if they have something documented these days, and if 
not, ask via a support request or something if they have any recommendations.


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