[Slackbuilds-users] Possible broken link for libgphoto2

[B]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for letting me know because I wasn't aware of
that.

~Brian
--- Eric Hameleers <alien at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

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> B wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > RE: SlackBuild Repository, Libraries > libgphoto2
> > 
> > FYI, the link to download
> "libgphoto2-2.4.0.tar.bz2"
> > seems to be broken.
> > The link on the SlackBuild page is,
> >
>
"http://dl.sourceforge.net/gphoto/libgphoto2-2.4.0.tar.bz2".
> > 
> > Instead I used this link, 
> >
>
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gphoto/libgphoto2-2.4.0.tar.bz2?modtime=1185749822&big_mirror=0"
> > 
> > ~Brian
> 
> The link on our website is OK. The host
> dl.sourceforge.net isa
> round-robin alias which will resolve to any random
> IP address in a
> list of servers. I found one server which did hot
> host the
> libgphoto2-2.4.0.tar.bz2 tarball, but could connect
> to several others
> (and download the tarball) successfully just now as
> a test.
> Ideally you would use the "-T" option to wget in
> order to download the
> tarball. With sourceforge.net mirrors you will
> sometimes find one that
> does not answer, and "-T" will make sure you will
> get reconnected to
> another one real soon.
> For instance I used:
> "wget -T 10
>
http://dl.sourceforge.net/gphoto/libgphoto2-2.4.0.tar.bz2"
> for my tests.
> 
> The URL you provided is too specific to be
> acceptable as a download
> URL for SlackBuilds.org.
> 
> Eric
> 
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