[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: uwm download url

Ryan P.C. McQuen ryan.q at linux.com
Mon May 18 13:34:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:35 AM Matteo Bernardini <
matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-05-18 11:07 GMT+02:00 David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com
> >:
> > Yo People,
> >
> > The problem is that the DOWNLOAD variable in the .info file can define
> > multiple URLs to download, separated by whitespace. That's why you
> > can't have whitespace in URLs in the .info file. %-encoding gets round
> > the problem trivially.
> >
> > Also, rfc3986...
>
> yup, you can see another effect of the whitespace also on
>
> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/desktop/uwm/
>
> besides what David says, let me state a thing about sourceforge urls
> (I hope for the benefit of all submitters): as they often get extra
> long and confusing, take in account that *ALL* downloads from there
> can be in the form
>
> http://downloads.sf.net/${name_of_the_project}/${tarball_name}
>
> so, in this case
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/udeproject/files/UWM/uwm-0.2.11a%20stable/uwm-0.2.11a.tar.gz
>
> can be written also as
>
> https://downloads.sf.net/udeproject/uwm-0.2.11a.tar.gz
>
> that is so much less confusing (and error-prone)...
>
>
Good advice Matteo.

Fixed in my branch.  ;^)


> Matteo
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