On Thursday 2013-08-01 16:36, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Somewhere, somewhere is a list that contains package <-> watchurl associations. Of course it would be much better if the watchurls would rather be directly drawn from specfiles.
#Freecode-URL: http://freecode.com/projects/12345678
So the various specfile conventions like #DL-URL are for human use only?
Well, # are comments in specfiles and ignored by rpm itself, but could be parsed by external tools (like #!BuildIgnore) or just be used by humans. For example, I add a #Git-Clone: at times, so that I do not have to go searching for the link on homepages all the time - because some projects have it under "Development" - and others bury it in the depths of their wiki like https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DevelTutorials . DL-URL however is used for two purposes currently (download directory view aka "Index of", and actual original file).
Is making it so that they are used a big enough challenge to qualify as a Google Summer of Code project for 2014? It just seems like something that not only could be done, but should be done.
Yes, and shasum for verification should also be placed into the spec file, ideally right next to the Source: lines (in something like "#Source2(sha512): abcd...") rather than in a separate file to reduce duplication anomalies.
Is there an existing fate entry?
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