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Re: [RELEASE] curl and libcurl 7.50.1 is out!

From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:50:06 +0200

On Wednesday, August 03, 2016 22:54:12 Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
> >> You don't have permission to access /download/curl-7.50.1.tar.bz2 on
> >
> > This applies to all 4 downloads.
>
> Only intermittently. There's some bug in the server that responds 403 at
> times but 7.50.1 package have been downloaded several thousand times
> successfully already. Just reload and it'll work again.
>
> I'm working on upgrading the server and looking what to do to address this
> glitch.
>
> > https://github.com/curl/curl/releases is the best alternative, I guess.
>
> I'd recommend not going that route as that will only give you what was
> tagged in git at that time, which isn't identical to the release tarballs.

It is also possible to upload release tarballs generated by 'make dist' to
the release page on GitHub using GitHub API. I have been using a curl-based
shell script to upload them on other two upstream projects:

https://github.com/kdudka/nss-pem/blob/master/upload-release.sh
https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/blob/master/upload-release.sh

Kamil
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Received on 2016-08-04