Comments on: Policy proposal for Factory: Make source of tar balls trackable https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/03/21/policy-proposal-for-factory-make-source-of-tar-balls-trackable/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Juergen Weigert https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/03/21/policy-proposal-for-factory-make-source-of-tar-balls-trackable/#comment-5082 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:53:43 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=6822#comment-5082 With allmost all my packages, I use full URLs with %Source*: …. Not only to make it trackable, but also to simplify package updates. I have a script called update_pkg that reads this URL from the spec-file, lists the directory at the server, and searches for the filename with other version numbers.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=update_pkg.pl&package=jw-settings&project=home%3Ajnweiger

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