Sourceforge URLs (was: Re: Fever spamming)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 09:09:56 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 01:12:35AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Anything we can do about that?
> 
> Actually, I figured out a solution myself: You have to provide a showfiles link 
> with both a group_id and a package_id, e.g.:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2917&package_id=2867
> instead of the previously used:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/z88dk
> format which redirects to just:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2917
> which brings up the "simplified" layout which hides all the important 
> information.

Ugh, I didn't realise it was this complicated ...  Unfortunately a lot
of these MinGW packages are hosted on SourceForge.  Is the (draft)
policy below still correct?

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SourceUrl#Sourceforge.net

Rich.

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