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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:07:49
Message-Id: 20090907130809.GA32552@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild by Xi Shen
1 On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
2 > when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename
3 > trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has
4 > special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many
5 > mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's
6 > some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename.
7 > could someone here fix this?
8
9 Either you made a typo or there's a typo in the ebuild somehow.
10
11 Looking at my copy of the ebuild (which I last synced, well, a while
12 ago. This is on a stable box that doesn't need much updating.):
13
14 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
15 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
16 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/dmg2img/dmg2img-1.6.ebuild,v1.1 2009/05/24 10:33:28 ssuominen Exp $
17
18 EAPI=2
19 inherit toolchain-funcs
20
21 DESCRIPTION="Converts Apple DMG files to standard HFS+ images"
22 HOMEPAGE="http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools"
23 SRC_URI="http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?${P}.tar.gz"
24
25
26 So your really should be trying to download
27
28 http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz
29
30 Notice the .pl? The author has the downloads fed via some sort of perl
31 script... so the question mark '?' makes perfect sense.
32
33 W
34 --
35 "You'd better hope that the planet's orbits are stable, because if they weren't
36 then every time somebody sneezed you'd fret about whether the Earth would go
37 careening off."
38 ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205
39 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1004 days, 11:57

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild Massimo Gengarelli <massimo.gengarelli@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild "Arttu V." <arttuv69@×××××.com>