Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

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