| Ticket UUID: | e11c8eb81b4dbadc33c79ce6ce2809e5c5970555 | ||
| Title: | There is no single, persistent link for the "latest known good" version of Fossil. | ||
| Status: | Open | Type: | Feature_Request |
| Severity: | Minor | Priority: | |
| Subsystem: | Resolution: | ||
| Last Modified: | 2009-09-21 05:10:15 | ||
| Version Found In: | [aa57354736] | ||
| Description & Comments: | |||
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Currently the most recent "known-good" source is available in a convenient tarball from http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html. Unfortunately the URL for that source file changes every time a new version goes up. This interferes with possibilities like automating package builds for Linux distros (RPMs, DEBs, TGZs, LZMs, etc.).
I propose a persistent link with a known, unvarying URL -- "http://www.fossil-scm.org/download/fossil-src-latest-good.tar.gz" -- which is just an alias pointing to whatever the latest updated build's name happens to be. (As of this ticket it would be an alias for "http://www.fossil-scm.org/download/fossil-src-20090915120431.tar.gz".) This would permit the proper creation of slackbuild scripts, for example (a prerequisite for fossil being included in Slackware) among others. | |||
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