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Berlios have introduced a new Sourceforge-like download.php thing that |
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requires that any download attempt include a magic key in the URL. |
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Thus, Berlios can no longer be used inside SRC_URI. |
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It gets worse. Even if you specify the magic key, Berlios seems to |
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shove an extra random garbage byte onto the end of any tarball. This |
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doesn't affect the output, since tar discards it, but it does screw up |
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digests and gives weird errors when unpacking. |
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It gets worse still. It looks like many our mirrors have broken copies |
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of certain Berlios-hosted tarballs. |
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Sooooo... AFAICS, the only way to proceed is, for each package hosted |
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on Berlios, contact upstream and get them to give you a tarball via a |
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different location, then manually mirror it, and use mirror://gentoo/ |
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in SRC_URI. |
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This really really sucks. Does anyone happen to know any of the Berlios |
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staff? |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |