Macros in Source fields (was: Re: Prelink success story :))

[Jos Vos]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> All that has been pointed out is that reviewers appreciate ready-to-use
> URLs, which they can cut'n'paste into console or browser to fetch a
> tarball from upstream. It has been pointed out that some packagers
> tend to obfuscate URLs with macros to a degree that is far from smart,
> e.g.
> 
>   Source0:  http://foo.bar/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}rc1.tar.gz
> 
> and that is bad taste and bad style. Or it turns out, the URL hasn't been
> updated or verified in a longer time and is not true anymore.

Absolutely true.  This is the reason I *always* check URL, Source* and
Patch* fields for every new version of my own rpm's by copying/pasting
into a browser and/or wget/curl, so I avoid macros in those fields too.

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