[Fedora-packaging] github URLs?

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sáb, 2015-04-18 at 23:11 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Sáb, 2015-04-18 at 13:28 -0700, Dave Johansen wrote:
> > What's the right way to handle github URLs? Currently, I'm working on
> > the spec file for breathe and the URL is
> > https://github.com/michaeljones/breathe/archive/v4.0.0.tar.gz and the
> > actual file that's downloaded is breathe-4.0.0.tar.gz. How do I make
> > that play nice in the spec file and with rpmlint?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> from 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2014-September/010287.html 
> 
> you got a webservice that redirects url correctly, for example on
> pngquant: 
> 
> -Source0:
> https://github.com/pornel/%{name}/archive/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> 
> +Source0:
> http://github.srcurl.net/pornel/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> 
> but just work for releases of github and not for tags of guthub , at
> least don't found a way to work on tags ... . So I use  srcurl.net for
> review package and remove it after (because doesn't worked on tags ) 

I think, I got confused with tags and releases . Now it seems they work
exactly in same way ... . It is hard to say, I don't know if github
change since then, sorry about introducing confusion about tags . 


> Best regards ,

-- 
Sérgio M. B.