I think in case of Fedora dist-git the pkgs component should remain in the URL.

This is current URL: https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/compose-utils/compose-utils-0.1.16.tar.bz2/sha512/…/compose-utils-0.1.16.tar.bz2.

If the pkgs path is removed, I'm getting 404, but https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/rpms/compose-utils/compose-utils-0.1.16.tar.bz2/sha512/…/compose-utils-0.1.16.tar.bz2 works.

There's one .swp file included in the PR.

Also there is a problem with the tests: the ones for the namespace expect .git/config file, but it's missing. I updated the rhpkg-simple patch to include those.

@lsedlar Fixed above issues. PTAL.

URL looks correct and sources for package in rpms namespace can be downloaded. The tests still don't pass for me:

$ ./tests/run-tests.sh 
test_md5_bsd                             0K
test_md5_old                             0K
test_ns_pkgname                          FAIL
DIFF:
--- expected    2017-09-25 14:34:58.473644723 +0200
+++ /tmp/tmp.ipXfesx1Mj 2017-09-25 14:37:01.089631624 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-curl -L -H Pragma: -o ./github-linguist-4.8.18.gem -R -S --fail --retry 5 --max-time 15 https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/container/fedpkg-minimal/github-linguist-4.8.18.gem/sha512/d556ffe0062bc2c745c46e94929eab18c79fd221ffc1dd0c0ea5868428bd130d7b15eec618e9c3940b50c27559923911135770792864f3330a606132dc8819c0/github-linguist-4.8.18.gem
+curl -L -H Pragma: -o ./github-linguist-4.8.18.gem -R -S --fail --retry 5 --max-time 15 https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/rpms/test_ns_pkgname/github-linguist-4.8.18.gem/sha512/d556ffe0062bc2c745c46e94929eab18c79fd221ffc1dd0c0ea5868428bd130d7b15eec618e9c3940b50c27559923911135770792864f3330a606132dc8819c0/github-linguist-4.8.18.gem
 sha512sum -c sources
test_sha512_bsd                          0K

Similar method is used. Now, git/config is included and copied to .git when run test. This time it should work.

Now the tests pass for me. I think this approach works, so :thumbsup: from me. Maybe it would be nice to get someone else to review as well, just to be sure.

This doesn't work if the URL does not end with .git.

Apparently I'm wrong and this is not a problem.

Is this pr still useful? Do we need to keep it opening or just close it?

I'm actually not sure. As far as I know, there was no one on Fedora side asking for lookaside in different namespaces, and so this is probably not really needed.

Yeah, I think we don't have plans for this, so I am going to just close it.

Feel free to file a new one if there's a need.

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