[Fedora-packaging] github URLs?

[Gerald B. Cox]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:

> Also documented in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Troublesome_URLs
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Relating to Github:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Github

One thing to remember is the use of the snapshot guidelines; you'll want to
do that unless you are using a release tag commit.

Several ways to handle:  one is to add:

%global checkout YYYYMMDDgit%shortcommit
(where YYYY = year, MM = month, DD day you pulled the commit)

There is a bit of discretion left to the packager to the ultimate format of
%{checkout} - but I did a quick search and found most folks were using the
format outlined above, so I figured go with the crowd.

then Release n.%{checkout}%{?dist}

finally in %changelog, don't forget to add the %{checkout} information to
your release version there or you'll get a mismatch.

Also, you need to manual state the information, i.e.:
 n.n.n.YYYYMMDDgitnnnnnnnn - you'll get an error if you try to actually use
%{checkout} in %changelog.

I just went through all this, so it's fresh in my mind... ;-)

If anyone else has any recommendations on this, would appreciate reading
them.

Thanks!
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