Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date: 2009-12-29 14:39:57
Message-ID: 4B3A14BD.6000309@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Devrim GÜNDÜZ escribió:
>> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:59 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>>> I might be wrong but I don't think we have that many users that are
>>> regulary rebuilding rpms from source with the original tar.gz being on
>>> pgfoundry...
>>>
>>> Well, the big users would be Devrim (RPMs) and I guess whomever does
>>> debian packages of the things.
>> Right. Because of the nature of build system, my build scripts download
>> up to 50 copies of each tarball :)
>
> I don't understand how this is a problem. For each new release Devrim
> needs to update the URL in the SPEC file anyway, due to the way the URLs
> are namespaced with the silly numeric ID, no? Which is exactly what
> David is complaining about. How would this be different?

it's not only what some here call the "silly numeric id" - if there is a
new release you will have to adjust to the new filename as well so I
really don't see the problem here.

Stefan

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