help requested with Sourceforge download URL for RPM Source tag

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Sat Mar 10 04:36:20 UTC 2012


On 3/9/12 10:18 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/muparser/muparser_v2_2_2.zip
> 
> Thanks!  I could have sworn that I tried that one, but I guess I must have screwed it up somehow.

When all else fails, there is always the documentation ;)
(of course finding the docs can sometimes be the trick)


> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net
> 
> For packages hosted on sourceforge, use
> 
> Source0: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> 
> changing ".tar.gz" to whatever matches the upstream distribution.



in your case %{name}-%{version} needs tweaking too.

-Eric


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