Sources file audit - 2010-01-06

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:21:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:06:11AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > rjones:BADURL:expat-2.0.1.tar.gz:mingw32-expat
> > > rjones:BADURL:mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-src.tar.gz:mingw32-runtime
> > > rjones:BADURL:PDCurses-3.4.tar.gz:mingw32-pdcurses
> > > rjones:BADURL:w32api-3.13-mingw32-src.tar.gz:mingw32-w32api
> > > rjones:BADURL:watchdog-5.5.tar.gz:watchdog
> > 
> > Sourceforge seems to have changed the format of their download URLs
> > once again.  The source url for the first one is:
> > 
> > http://download.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-%{version}.tar.gz
>                  ^- here is an "s" missing.
> > 
> > which corresponds with the advice given here (and obviously this
> > worked previously).
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL
> > 
> > But the above link no longer works, and the new URL is this:
> > 
> > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.0.1/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
> > 
> > What's the current thinking on SF URLs?  Perhaps we should have an RPM
> > macro/feature to hide this hideousness?
> 
> The recommended and still working URL is this:
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
>                ^

Ah well spotted.  I've fixed all these packages now.

Rich.

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