This project should address the problem of unreliable URLs by proxying an ID to a URL. The ID is your stable token you can rely on and the corresponded URL is maintained by a community.
Please make PRs adding new lines to the urls.tsv file with your package, the
expected sha256sum, and optionally a comment. If you don't need to make
sweeping changes to urls.tsv honestly your best choice for editing it is
probably going to be a spreadsheet tool like libreoffice. If you do need to
edit it in vim, I've found :set ts=120 to be helpful in aligning columns.
The file consists of four tab separated columns:
| Column | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Id | A package ID, some short, unique (in the file) identifier for the package. |
| 2 | Version | A version number for the package. Should represent upstream's version accurately. |
| 3 | Platform | One of (linux, windows, darwin, src) |
| 4 | Architecture | One of (x32, x64, all) |
| 5 | Upstream URL | Upstream's URL for the download. This only necessarily exist before the Community Package Cacher downloads is the first time. After that the URL may disappear and we will retain our copy |
| 6 | sha256sum | sha256sum of the correct file. |
| 7 | Alternate URL | If the package is NOT to be hosted by the Community Package Cache, then an alternate url may be specified in this column which the downloader will use when downloading, and the updater will use to ignore that package. |
| 8 | Comment | Feel free to add a comment to your package |
You can use the community package cache with a small script called gsl (get stable link).
--package_id specifies the unique package name and with --download_location you can provide a path where the tarball should be stored.
The simplest way to download your archive is using this magic curl command.
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erasche/package-cache/master/gsl.py | python - --package_id augustus_3_1MIT licensed. See LICENSE file.