Fossil SCM
There is no single, persistent link for the "latest known good" version of Fossil.
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· opened 16 years, 6 months ago
- Type
- Feature_Request
- Priority
- —
- Severity
- Minor
- Resolution
- Works_As_Designed
- Subsystem
- —
- Created
- Sept. 21, 2009 5:10 a.m.
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.
Comments (1)
Because "known good" is nothing more than a tag, and the trunk tag is (barring natural disasters) considered stable in this project, this is already possible:
http://...fossil-url.../zip/Fossil-trunk.zip?uuid=trunk