[tor-dev] Symlink to latest sources

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:31:56AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 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.

Oops, you're right, of course.  Good call.
-- 
Ian Goldberg
Associate Professor and University Research Chair
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge