Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect for savannah downloads

[Sylvain Beucler]

> FWIW Gentoo already has support for GNU mirrors, e.g.:
> 
>   mirror://gnu/freedink/${P}.tar.bz2

Ok, that was cryptic.

This is a URL that you can add in a package's .ebuild file, which
itself contains the instructions for automatically grabbing the source
and compiling binaries. The URL can be used in the SRC_URI field.

But this is used to download precise versions, not to detect new
releases: ${P} is generated after the package version specified by the
packager (not something automatic).


As for Debian, they use a separate 'debian/watch' file to detect new
releases, which will use the ftp.gnu.org host anyway.

I don't know how/if other distros detect new releases automagically.

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Sylvain