[Slackbuilds-users] R failes to download

[Robby Workman]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:19:15 -0500
B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/12/12, emmel <the_emmel at gmx.net> wrote:
> > So the .info lists a not working download link? Isn't that in
> > violation of the slackbuild guidelines? And should that not be
> > mentioned in the REDAME at least?
> 
> I bet it was a working link at the time the script was submitted...
> there are quite a few projects that remove their old releases when
> they make a new release.


Yes indeed.


> One way to deal with this would be to make the download link point to
> a Gentoo or FreeBSD repository, if there's an ebuild or a bsd-port of
> the package. Gentoo apparently keeps old versions on their mirrors
> forever. Just make sure the md5sum matches the source from the
> original site.


Sure, that's fine.


> Another way, of course, would be to mirror it yourself... or ask the
> SBo admins to store it on the slackbuilds.org site.


We *really* don't want to do this.  We have done it in the past, but
we decided that this was not going to be the norm, so generally 
speaking, that won't happen.

-RW

>


We *really* don't want to do this.  We have done it in the past, but
we decided that this was not going to be the norm, so generally 
speaking, that won't happen.

-RW
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