[Fedora-packaging] Source0 for github ?

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:44:18 -0700
Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 05:38:59PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:54:04 -0700
> > Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > Github has changed this several times :-(  if the old url scheme
> > > is not working any longer the guidelines should be updated.  Fpc
> > > ticket is probably best for that.  From your description of what
> > > urls work, I'm not sure if there's a good recommendation for a
> > > github url in source0 (have to test the permutations to see).
> > > Might have to go back to putting the url in a comment.
> > 
> > I tried a few permutations and none with $PROJECT-%{commit}.tar.gz
> > worked ...
> > 
> > What should be put in the fpc ticket ?
> > 
> The format that helps the FPC the most is to copy the existing
> guideline (or section if it's just a portion) into a fresh wiki page,
> submit.  Then make proposed changes and commit.  When you're happy
> with it, open an FPC ticket that points to the page and also lists
> the important facts that you've discovered about why the change needs
> to be made (in this case, that the present URL scheme no longer works
> and that there doesn't appear to be any nice replacement).
> 
> If $PROJECT-%{commit}.tar.gz no longer works, I'd probably say that
> downloading using wget or curl to ${PROJECT}-%{commit}.tar.gz and then
> listing the url to use in a spec file comment is the way to go.  An
> alternative is to use the %{commit}.tar.gz url in the Source0 but the
> headers pose their own technical problem there and having a bunch of
> tarballs with simply commit hashes as names is less than ideal from a
> human readable standpoint.
> 
> I'm no longer on the FPC so it'll be up to you and the present FPC
> members to decide what alternative to go with.

Well I am no expert and I am not sure what to do here.
Can someone else chime in ?

What would you do ?
The comment route looks as good as any other to me...

Simo.



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