<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 4:42 AM B. Watson <<a href="mailto:urchlay@slackware.uk">urchlay@slackware.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2026, Tonus via SlackBuilds-users wrote:<br>
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> Hi all<br>
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> While updating a few python related slackbuilds, I was wondering about<br>
> source links.<br>
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> For sources from <a href="https://files.pythonhosted.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://files.pythonhosted.org/</a>, I thought we<br>
> recommanded this kind of URL<br>
> <a href="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/$PKG_INITIAL_LETTER/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$$VERSION.tar.gz" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/$PKG_INITIAL_LETTER/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$$VERSION.tar.gz</a><br>
> Could it land in the ressources page ?<br>
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Yeah. We do prefer that. But nobody ever put it in a FAQ or anything,<br>
which we should. Noted.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I did write a helper function/script that will auto correct github and pythonhosted source URLs to a working format... in case anyone is interested: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/bassmadrigal/scripts/blob/master/check-source-download.sh">https://github.com/bassmadrigal/scripts/blob/master/check-source-download.sh</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been using the basis of it for years in my sbgen.sh script and haven't found any issues.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jeremy</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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