Thanks Rose and Dick! (yea i was chatting with Gary and he pointed me to
the same appendix F)! Thanks - this helps!

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:58 PM Dick Brooks <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Rose,
>
>
>
> I believe the existing SPDX spec also supports your statement: “should be
> used for direct download location only”
>
>
>
>
> https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/blob/development/v2.3/chapters/package-information.md#77-package-download-location-field-
>
>
>
> “This section identifies the download Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or a
> specific location within a version control system (VCS) for the package at
> the time that the SPDX document was created.”
>
>
>
> Supported VCS identifiers are shown in Table 19, purl is not listed.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dick Brooks
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> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of
> *Rose Judge
> *Sent:* Friday, April 29, 2022 3:50 PM
> *To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [spdx-tech] Question about encoding purl (Package URL)
>
>
>
> I think we have talked about this at previous docfests and from what I dug
> up from our notes, PackageDownloadLocation should be used for direct
> download location only and used complimentary to ExternalRef. ExternalRef
> should be used as normalization/correlation for packages with purl being
> the preferred reference. This is supported by the spec
> <https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/external-repository-identifiers/#f35-purl>
> which has purl used as an external references like so:
>
> "externalRefs" : [ {
> "referenceCategory" : "PACKAGE_MANAGER",
> "referenceLocator" : "<purl locator>",
> "referenceType" : "purl"
> }
>
>
>
> This would also be a great topic to discuss further at the upcoming SPDX
> Implementers call 😉
>
>
>
> -Rose
>
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>
>
> *From: *[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of
> Brandon Lum via lists.spdx.org <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Friday, April 29, 2022 at 12:07 PM
> *To: *SPDX Technical Mailing List <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *[spdx-tech] Question about encoding purl (Package URL)
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> Hi, I have a quick question on where something like a package url (purl)
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> should be encoded in the SPDX package definition. Would it be as part of
> the PackageDownloadLocation field?
>
>
>
> The reason for asking is around using purls as look-up keys to retrieve
> auxiliary information.
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