Juergen Daubert wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:09:40AM +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:12:26PM +0900, Alan wrote:
Hi Alan,
We have many ports with sourceforge URLs that don't work reliably (for whatever reason), and its always a pain to build these ports.
So I propose that everybody change their URLs to the one that has always worked for me:
thanks for your suggestion, but as you can see in your example below, this only redirects to a different URL which seems to be the 'new' layout of sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<project_name>/<sub_project_name>/<version>/<file_name>
I've noticed the first time yesterday that the pattern we are currently using in most of our ports dosn't work anymore, though your suggestion still does.
looks like I've selected a half-broken mirror, which is currently not able to do the correct redirects. Using heanet (193.1.193.66) works but I'd suggest to use 216.34.181.129, which is the IP of downloads.sf.net in /etc/hosts or where else you are doing your DNS resolution. See [1].
http://d23ae2aa8a67444e.paste.se/ shows the response for heanet, http://6e124b629ed6dcd5.paste.se/ for downloads.sf.net. Thanks to Tilman for providing the pastes.
Greetings Juergen
If you look over the git change I did a long time ago in contrib, I have not had any issues with using this format; http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xine/$name-$version.tar.bz2 But now I use my own mirror://sourceforge format that I hacked in pkgutils, perhaps you would be keen on this patch but someone else can implement it it took over a year for the last patch for new files in footprint. Regards, Danny