[Slackbuilds-users] Possible broken link for libgphoto2

[Lehman Black]

Maybe there should be something in the FAQ about dl.sourceforge.net. There
seems to be a lot about it recently.

On 10/10/07, B <tptagth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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