[tor-dev] Symlink to latest sources

Ian Goldberg iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Sep 9 20:53:54 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:35:15PM -0400, Peter Swire wrote:
> Dear Roger,
> 
> You've avoided that for both binaries and sources?  That's interesting.  I
> guess it makes sense, if it's been a problem before.
> 
> I mostly would like to be able to wget the the sources and build them
> automatically, without having to specify a version number.  Whenever I
> setup a new machine, I like to make it a tor relay; I don't particularly
> care about versions, just as long as it's new enough to not have any old
> vulnerabilities.

I suppose fetching tor-latest.tgz could 302 redirect to tor-0.2.x.y.tgz?
Then wget would retrieve it with the version number, addressing the
support issue?

   - Ian


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