sbolint: exempt github gists (and raw) URLs from check.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index eecb7be..42a60f3 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-TODO: sbolint: exempt github gists URLs from check (actually, only check /archive/).
 TODO: sbolint: complain about backticks and chown blah.blah
 TODO: sbopkglint: maybe? change "forbidden" to:
   --- etc/ld.so.conf not allowed to exist in SBo packages.
 TODO: sbopkglint: grep for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile.d/* scripts.
 
 This stuff is implemented, probably works, needs more testing:
+TODO: sbolint: exempt github gists URLs from check (actually, only check /archive/).
 TODO: sbopkglint: complain louder if an empty /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin exists.
 TODO: sbopkglint: exempt /lib/firmware and /usr/share/alsa/firmware from ELF checks
 DONE: sbolint and sbopkglint both: complain if PRGNAM has invalid characters.
diff --git a/sbolint b/sbolint
index fbb40f0..4da2afa 100755
--- a/sbolint
+++ b/sbolint
@@ -1239,7 +1239,9 @@ sub check_github_url {
 	my $dir;
 
 	# do not police releases/ or raw/ URLs, only archive/
-	return unless $url =~ m{github\.com/[^/]*/[^/]*/archive/};
+	# 20241008 bkw: also only police URLs that are in the main github.com
+	# domain, not e.g. raw.github.com or gists.github.com.
+	return unless $url =~ m{//github\.com/[^/]*/[^/]*/archive/};
 
 	# allow *and ignore* refs/tags
 	$url =~ s,refs/tags/,,;