335498 – SRC_URI cannot accept indirect links.

Bug 335498 - SRC_URI cannot accept indirect links.

Summary: SRC_URI cannot accept indirect links.

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177863

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2010-09-01 10:54 UTC by dE
Modified:	2010-09-01 14:06 UTC (History)
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Description dE 2010-09-01 10:54:44 UTC

The SRC_URI variable only accepts direct links, not the ones like - 

http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/download.php?id=41&num=1

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-01 14:06:33 UTC

We have support for SRC_URI arrows like this if you set EAPI=2 or 3 at the top of the ebuild:

EAPI=3
SRC_URI="http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/download.php?id=41&num=1 -> $PV.tar.bz2"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 177863 ***