unversioned upstream source

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jul 10 16:07:19 UTC 2006


Hello,

I am seeking advice, or even better guidelines on the issue of unversionned
upstream source.

(I have allready mistakenly posted that mail to fedora-devel-list and I had 
2 helpfull responses, but I repost it here since it is more appropriate
for packaging (although other lists could also have been right...), 
sorry for the double post.)

There is a dispute which may be seen here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197488

The upstream tarball is unversioned, I would like to add the timestamp to
the tarball name to avoid having different tarballs with the same name, in
case upstream wants to do a newer release without modifying the tarball name.
This leads to:

%define stamp 19981218

Source0:        uread-%{stamp}.tar.gz
# unversioned upstream source, downloaded with wget -N
# renamed to uread-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz
#Source0:        http://www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/~snor007/src/uread.tar.gz

What do you think about that issue? What do you think is best practice
and why?

--
Pat




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