How to use 'Download files as specified in spec file`

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#1

Hi,

can anyone give me a hand on how to use the a.m. service? It asks for parameters like recompress or enforceupstream, but I have no idea (and dont find any help in this area) on how to use this.

The file that I actually like to process is:

http://www.myfile.org/getfile.php?file=myfile-5.1.4.tgz

Thanks

PS: A ‘help’ Button for the parameters of the services is very much appreciated. Thanks!

#2

Easy solution:

Put that URL into Source tag of spec file. then use that feature.

But *.tgz might be not a good compression format.

Better solution:

  1. use “Download file from url” to download it.
  2. use “Recompression” to change compression format to tar.gz.
#3

Hi
The openSUSE build standard is to use what ever compression the tarball
comes in as well as referencing the full download url source/name.

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