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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:33:49 -0500, Toshio wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:30, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Is an URL which contains macros still an URL? What do you do with an URL
> > that contains macros? You can't cut'n'paste it into a browser, because it
> > contains macros. So why include protocol, hostname and path in Source
> > fields at all? How does the packager fetch a new release? Does he visit
> > the web page from bookmarks? Or does he reconstruct a valid URL from
> > the macros?
> >  
> Thanks, Michael, that's a great explanation.
> 
> I've got a new scenario to ask about: do any of the autobuilders the
> Fedora Project is going to use depend on being able to parse the Source:
> line into a URL?

I doubt that.
 
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