Re: Someone please take over these packages

[Jarod Wilson <jwilson redhat com>]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 07:29:32 am Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 June 2008 07:17:44 pm Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> >> connect-proxy is dead-simple, but dunno how many people
> >>
> >>> actually have use for it (I did 3 years ago, notsomuch anymore...).
> >>
> >> Just for the record (after reading
> >> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/connect-proxy/devel/connect-pr
> >>oxy .spec?rev=1.3&view=markup ) shouldn't %source  be
> >> http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c rather than the filename
> >> that is used now ?
> >
> > Did you miss the two lines after the Source0 line? :)
>
> Yes, I did. I did not read the comments :) That should teach me to
> [re]act at 3 AM...

:)

> > -----
> > Source0:        connect-%{version}.c
> > # Real source listed below, it was renamed for sanity's sake
> > #Source0:        http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c
> > -----
> >
> > I find renaming it much less ugly to deal with multiple versions,
> > particularly given the sucktitude of cvs.
>
> only that this breaks the scripts which download the source from web and
> verify md5/sha1

Using the full url the the unversioned source is prone to failure too. If 
there's a new connect.c posted, the checksums aren't going to match, and 
you're right back where we started.

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson redhat com