SPECS: jamin.spec - 0.95.0, switched to working sf mirror,

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:19:26AM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> Elan =?iso-8859-2?q?Ruusam=E4e?= wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 April 2005 20:25, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > > Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:46:18 +0300
> > > >
> > > > "Elan Ruusamäe" <glen at delfi.ee> wrote:
> > > > > >>why aren't you using SPECS/mirrors to specify yourself working sf
> > > > > >>mirror?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >tell me which one works always and for all projects, and i will use
> > > > > >it.
> > > > >
> > > > > seriously tough, i havent had any such problems with sf urls, so i
> > > > > can't really help here.
> > > >
> > > > dl.sourceforge.net/project_name/%{name}-%{version}-tarball doesn't
> > > > work for me in many cases (perl-Gtk2.spec for example). It is
> > > > impossible to update any .spec without fetching some sources...
> > > >
> > > > What is the _right way_ in such case? what should we do with broken
> > > > sf.net downloads?
> > >
> > > I think we are still waiting for sb to find a working solution.
> > > I have seen in some places references to a specific sf site.
> > > But IMO there is no common policy which site should be used.
> > i seem to get hit by these mirrors.
> > so perhaps find their reverse and put them to SPECS/mirrors so they're used globally.
> 
> heanet belnet used to. Now AFAIK they also don't.

Recently only heanet provided browsable directories, but it's down ATM.

Do they want to force us to use non-working file listings?
(prdownloads is browsable, but all links refer to further HTML pages
instead of sources :/)

> > Resolving dl.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.221, 150.65.7.130, 198.142.1.17, ...
> > 
> > 221.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 221.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa.
> > 221.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer sc8-sf-ftp1.sourceforge.net.
> > 130.7.65.150.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ftp.jaist.ac.jp.
> > 17.1.142.198.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer sourceforge.optusnet.com.au.
> 
> We need URLs that allow directory listing. Without that some our tools stop
> working. Or all specs with dl.sourceforge.net references need
> Source#Download field to be added (is it already properly supported ?).

Manually only. See TODO in pldnotify.awk.


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