How to escape question mark / equality sign in spec's source URI to get proper source name

[Matej Stuchlik]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:12:21 AM
Subject: Re: How to escape question mark / equality sign in spec's source	URI to get proper source name

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 05:01 -0500, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
>      I have one source which has the form of (in the last part of it's URI):
>   "checklist-cce-feed?id=295" (the source doesn't seem to be available otherwise
> than via aforementioned query string - or at least I wasn't able to obtain
> it's final location past the query => if you known there's a way how to find
> out the final file location past the query string would be expanded, let me know).
> 
>     For now I present that source URI in the particular spec in it's original form
> (including the query string to avoid rpmlint to complain about non-existing
> source, and later in the %install moving that source to some more meaningful
> name). This works on RHEL5 (maybe question mark / equality sign not having
> special meaning there yet?), but not for example at Fedora-19.
> 
>      At Fedora 19 rpmbuild strips off the part till equality sign, iow
> "checklist-cce-feed?id=" from the source and searches only for '295' =>
> rpmbuild fails with a complain not being able to find "rpmbuild/SOURCES/295"
> file.

Maybe use only the name of the source file, and add a comment above
explaining that it comes from that URL?

You can use "checklist-cce-feed?id=295#nameofthesource.tar.bz2", but I'd say ^ is
the best idea.

Matt


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Mathieu


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