source file audit - 2009-11-01

[Till Maas]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:23:08AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:38:38 -0600
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> > I tried grabbing http://dl.sf.net/glest/glest_data_3.2.1.zip and it
> > seemed to work. The actual URL in the spec file has the %version
> > macro.
> > 
> > Is the macro or something with sourceforge the problem?
> 
> It's sourceforge. 
> 
> I use 'spectool -g foo.spec', which expands all the macros... 
> 
> Here's what my script said for that spec: 
> 
> --2009-11-01 17:16:41--  http://dl.sf.net/glest/glest_data_3.2.1.zip
> Resolving dl.sf.net... 128.101.240.209, 150.65.7.130, 198.142.1.17, ...
> Connecting to dl.sf.net|128.101.240.209|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2009-11-01 17:16:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> Sadly, I think sf is just unreliable. ;( 

The SourceURL Guidelines[0] mandate to use in this case
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/glest/glest_data_3.2.1.zip
instead of the "dl.sf.net" version.

Regards
Till

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net
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