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It seemed simple -- a quick 'emerge abiword', then to get on |
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with writing my book. But now, I have spent approximately |
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half an hour dealing with this absurdity. Turns out ibiblio |
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has replaced the source for pspell with a friendly page |
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asking me what my preferred mirror is, and redirecting me to |
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the _real_ file. This is totally unacceptable. Linx thinks |
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it's a gzipped tarball, because of its extension -- and who |
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can blame it? -- and attempts to download it. After saving |
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the file and, on a hunch, renaming it to .html, Lynx finally |
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reads it -- but emerge still barfs, not even checking what |
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type of file it is before doing the md5sum -- and who can |
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blame it? |
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Nevertheless, this must be fixed. There are two ways of |
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fixing it -- bother ibiblio until they get rid of their |
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nice, friendly page, or replace every reference to every |
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file this has affected with a reference to the real file. |
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It seems obvious which one to do, but as my XWindows is |
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down, I have been browsing with Lynx. Their contact page is |
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extremely unhelpful with Lynx, helpful as it might (emphasis |
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on 'might') be later. |
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They're your mirror, so I suggest you complain to them. |
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Until then, it's back to Windows -- and a precompiled |
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Windows binary. |
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