Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (551 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011 schrieb Brian K. White:
> On 5/4/2011 4:13 AM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011 schrieb Brian K. White:
> > > Does everything actually have a valid url that goes to an archive?
> > > Some things just have web sites where the download link is a cgi,
> > > sometimes a poorly written cgi, and no direct simple link to the actual
> > > archive is offered, and trying to wget/curl the url doesn't work or
> > > doesn't work as desired.
> >
> > Those don't use _service files atm either. So there is no change.
> >
> > Greetings, Stephan
>
> The point was that you suggested making the source url comment important
> instead of just a comment.
>
> I put whatever I can in the source url comment (in spec files) that will
> point the way to how to get the upstream source, and there is always
> _something_ I can put there, but it is not always something that can be
> automated, or that should be considered any more authoritative than the
> locally hosted copy, for instance, the debian or redhat version of a
> package that no longer has any official upstream source, or a known
> broken link that was the last known location and that's better than
> forgetting the info, or a wayback machine link, etc.

> Those and other possible things that might appear in the source url
> comment are not usable for automated download or verify, and sometimes
> there is no better thing to put there. So making that comment important
> is not sensible to me, at least not without making it
> voluntary/optional, where it's only invoked by putting a special string
> in there, or less-good, disabled by putting a special string in there.
It has to be correct at the moment when you submit it. If it can't be correct 
for reasons given by you, then don't put them in the Source: url but in a 
comment. If it turns broken at some later point, it's of course out of your 
control, but that doesn't mean you should write bogus URIs in spec files
just because you can.

Greetings, Stephan
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