.spec file Source0 magic for github release source tarballs?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 17:09:19 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/21/2014 06:01 PM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
> >
> > Take, for example, https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/releases,
> where there's a button for "Source code
> > (tar.gz)" pointing at
> https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/archive/V2.0.0.tar.gz
> >
> > Note V2.0.0.tar.gz versus nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz.
> >
> > If I click on that link the downloaded file is named
> nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz by virtue of the Content-Disposition http
> > header.
> >
> > Likewise if I use `curl -L ...` the downloaded file is named
> nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz.
> >
> > But for my nfs-ganesha.spec file, if I use the github link shown above,
> I have to load a file V2.0.0.tar.gz into the
> > look-aside cache. Anything else and rpm and rpmlint whine.
> >
> > Is there a best practice here that I'm missing?
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Github



Interesting... However, if you're working with an actual release tag, I
would think Peter's method would be much better.

Richard
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