Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:18:58 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE: how do *you* handle it? Message-ID: <CANT_Jfxy7Ab6N5L8c74e38SFgNom6RSsh38__j7iGyFPspW=kQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110829131402.15dad07b@cox.net> References: <20110828210511.3d2e0604@cox.net> <4E5BABD0.9090300@xaerolimit.net> <20110829131402.15dad07b@cox.net>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrot= e: > Yes, it's kind of crazy what's going on with Sourceforge these days. > Used to be that the URL for a given project's file(s) was a pretty > straightforward, standard affair, with the URL invariably ending with > the name of the file. =A0Now they're using all these "download" links > instead, with redirects automatically being invoked, as well as > unexpectedly inconsistent elements within the URL. =A0I'm surprised there > haven't been a lot of reports already of unfetchable distfiles and/or > broken links in ports' Makefiles. > > I had to step back from it for a while, as after numerous attempts to > find a clean and simple way to handle the new URL scheme, I got > dizzy. =A0:-) =A0Maybe I'll get back to it sometime today. =A0It may turn= out > that there is, in fact, no general, one-size-fits-all solution for this. > > I don't know. =A0Isn't anyone else (ports maintainers in particular) > running into any trouble with this? > Download it in your browser so that you can see the real url after all the redirect business is done: http://superb-sea2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/scidvspc/source/scid_vs_pc-4.= 5.tgz Now you can figure out the SF/whatever expansion with trial and error. I think they trying to discourage what we are doing - direct linking to specific mirrors and bypassing the load balancer. Right now all ports hit Heanet first (unless the user has set RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES or another override). --=20 Rob Farmer
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