[tor-dev] Symlink to latest sources

Peter Palfrader weasel at torproject.org
Wed Sep 10 06:31:56 UTC 2014


On Tue, 09 Sep 2014, Ian Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:35:15PM -0400, Peter Swire wrote:
> > 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?

wget wouln't, unless you pass it --trust-server-names, which is a bad
idea.

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