Actually, the GL are pretty clear here: the source should be referenced using the full commit, nothing else. There is some reasoning why. The tag should got to  Version: (as long its 'sane').

Besides that this is the existing GL, there is also a subtle difference in git-archive (which supposedly runs this).  When archiving  a tag, the sources gets today's date. OTOH, when archiving a commit,  the sources modification dates are their commit date. Last time I checked this was also true on github.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> wrote:
On 01/21/2014 06:01 PM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>
> Take, for example, https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/releases, where there's a button for "Source code
> (tar.gz)" pointing at https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/archive/V2.0.0.tar.gz
>
> Note V2.0.0.tar.gz versus nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz.
>
> If I click on that link the downloaded file is named nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz by virtue of the Content-Disposition http
> header.
>
> Likewise if I use `curl -L ...` the downloaded file is named nfs-ganesha-2.0.0.tar.gz.
>
> But for my nfs-ganesha.spec file, if I use the github link shown above, I have to load a file V2.0.0.tar.gz into the
> look-aside cache. Anything else and rpm and rpmlint whine.
>
> Is there a best practice here that I'm missing?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Github


Interesting... However, if you're working with an actual release tag, I would think Peter's method would be much better.

Richard 

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