Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

[Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>]

yeah, that's the problem. the file on the mirror has a bad filename.
anyway i managed to get it installed.

thanks ;)

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Willie Wong<wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0300, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked:
>> On 9/7/09, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
>> >> when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename
>> >> trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has
>> >> special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many
>> >> mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's
>> >> some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename.
>> >> could someone here fix this?
>> >
>> > So your really should be trying to download
>> >
>> > http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz
>>
>> My guess was that OP meant that Gentoo Mirrors don't seem to carry the
>> file, even if it is still directly downloadable?
>>
>> Over here portage tries downloading it from mirrors first (naturally),
>> gets 404s and then goes for the real source. So, maybe OP has a gentoo
>> mirror available nearby (in network topology) and just wants to reduce
>> wasted international traffic?
>
> Ah, I didn't understand the OP correctly. I thought he was just
> looking at the ebuild and trying to download the package manually.
>
> Hum, it looks like that on the mirrors, the file is stored
> as 'download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz', which may cause a problem. I
> think you should file a bug! Maybe tell them to change SRC_URI to
> something like
>  SRC_URI="http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?${P}.tar.gz
>    mirror://gentoo/download.pl%3f${P}.tar.gz"
> So the the link to the version on the mirror works.
>
> Also... another thought. Don't know if it works:
> I vaguely remember something in EAPI-2 that may fix this problem,
>
> http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/eapi-2-src_uri-arrows/
>
> It may not get acted on just yet, but it maybe better for the future.
> So perhaps you can try mentioning it in your bug :)
>
> W
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