[Fedora-packaging] Source Url Guidelines

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Feb 15 07:17:50 UTC 2007


On Thursday 15 February 2007, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mittwoch 14 Februar 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > Source0:
> > > http://download.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> >
> > Tiny detail: s/download./downloads./ - the former has been shaky for
> > quite a while now, but I've never seen the latter fail.
>
> I just remembered, that in another thread I read
> prdownloads.sourceforge.net as the recommended sourceforge download source.
> But I do not know, which works better or if there are any differences.

prdownloads tarball URLs aren't suitable, they're not directly downloadable.




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