Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Ticket #13186, comment 12


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Mar 21, 2025, 1:14:43 PM (3 weeks ago)
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Robin Candau

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  • Ticket #13186, comment 12

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    1919Both types of package managers actually implies to fetch file from upstream. The only difference between the first and the second type in that regard is that, in the fist type, a package maintainer does the fetching once beforehand (and also compiles the software) so users don't have to do it themselves (as compared to the second type where users execute the recipe themselves locally, which includes fetching files from upstream).
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    21 This file fetching from upstream, whether it is done by package maintainers in type 1 or users in type 2, is automated as part of the packaging process. Our packaging tooling automatically fetches files from upstream according to the source declared in our build recipes.
     21This file fetching from upstream, whether it is done by package maintainers in type 1 or users in type 2, is automated as part of the packaging process when packaging a new release. Our packaging tooling automatically fetches files from upstream according to the source declared in our build recipes.
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    2323Since the URL to download filezilla & libfilezilla sources became "unstable", this is of course not possible for our tooling to download them automatically anymore (as the random part of the download URL cannot be "fixed" / predicted, obviously).