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/%%7Bname%7D/%%7Bname%7D-%%7Bversion%7D.tar....
One of my packages, gnome-password-generator, does not follow this. It uses http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnome-password/%%7Bname%7D-%%7Bversion%7D.t...
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.