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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling downloads from sourceforge in an ebuild
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:29:28
Message-Id: 20040525220532.30a012b2@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Handling downloads from sourceforge in an ebuild by Ajai Khattri
1 On Tue, 25 May 2004 16:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net>
2 wrote:
3 | Just wondering how people handle projects hosted on sourceforge in an
4 | ebuild as far as downloading tarballs is concerned? When you download
5 | from sourceforge you are redirected to a page which allows you to
6 | select your nearest mirror. How could (should?) this be handled in an
7 | ebuild?
8
9 mirror://sourceforge/fnord/fnord-1.23.tar.bz2
10
11 but don't hardcode the program name or version, because that's EVIL.
12
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