On Sunday, 23 December 2007, at 12:56:40 (+0100),
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

>      (c) SourceX: <url>:<file>
>          This is a remote URL where the local <file> is different
>          from basename(<url>) (very important as this is usually
>          the case when downloading unversioned files, etc). RPM
>          checks for %{_sourcedir}/<file> on the local filesystem.
>          If it is not existing, it downloads remote <url> to local
>          %{_sourcedir}/<file>. If it cannot download it, it complains
>          with an error.
> 
>      (d) SourceX: <url>#<file>
>          This is a remote URL where the local <file> cannot be
>          downloaded via <url> automatically at all. This is usually
>          used in conjunction with a "NoSource: X" header and
>          indicates that <url> has to be visited _manually_, searched
>          for <file> manually, downloaded manually and then stored
>          under %{_sourcedir}/<file> manually. RPM checks for
>          %{_sourcedir}/<file> existance and if it doesn't exist is
>          complains with an error containing a hint that the user has to
>          visit <url>.

Except that : and # are valid URL characters and thus cannot be used
as delimiters.

Michael

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