Re: [gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

[Brad Cowan]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:20 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Berlios have introduced a new Sourceforge-like download.php thing that
> requires that any download attempt include a magic key in the URL.
> Thus, Berlios can no longer be used inside SRC_URI.
>
> It gets worse. Even if you specify the magic key, Berlios seems to
> shove an extra random garbage byte onto the end of any tarball. This
> doesn't affect the output, since tar discards it, but it does screw up
> digests and gives weird errors when unpacking.
>
> It gets worse still. It looks like many our mirrors have broken copies
> of certain Berlios-hosted tarballs.
>
> Sooooo... AFAICS, the only way to proceed is, for each package hosted
> on Berlios, contact upstream and get them to give you a tarball via a
> different location, then manually mirror it, and use mirror://gentoo/
> in SRC_URI.
>
> This really really sucks. Does anyone happen to know any of the Berlios
> staff?
>

  I noticed this yesterday when I finally found some free time to do
some bug squashing on Xfce.  I kept getting the weird untar errors you
mentioned even after DL manually. I ended up getting extremely mad and
gave up (chalking it up to some weirdness I get with satellite internet
every once in a while). Now I have the dilema of either finding another
good mirror or upping ~90 tarballs to our mirrors.  Will the auto mirror
fetching overwrite any bad tarballs on our mirrors once I find another
SRC_URI mirror if I go that route?

 
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