Le Lundi 18 Novembre 2002 03:26, Thierry Vignaud a �crit :
> Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes, I read mandrake rpm howto and I use it as a reference. but
> > still I don't think it's correct: if someone goes to download the
> > file from the url in the spec file he won't find it since it's only
> > distributed as a tar.gz:
>
> packagers're expected to be intelligent :-)
>
> sure, this is an issue, but not a so important one.
I never figured out the interest of giving url for sources:
- it is not used by rpm
- it is not always possible to specify such an url (mirrors, dynamic web
pages, etc...)
- there is a dedicated rpm tag for specifying software home page
- and as mdk policy make us change the file name anyway...
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