[Slackbuilds-users] R failes to download

[Greg' Ar Tourter]

Well it  seems to simply be a case were the mirror used in the info
file (cran.opensourceresources.org)  is no longer hosting the files.
not even the latest version (all file access get a 403 error with an
additional 404 on the error page) which probably means that some
rather destructive thing has happened somewhere.

In the meantime, all the other mirrors I have tried still carry the
files, source included. so the info file should probably be changed to
(for example):
 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz

Hope this helps

Greg

On 13 January 2012 11:34, LukenShiro <lukenshiro at ngi.it> wrote:
> Il giorno Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:06:36 -0600
> Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> ha scritto:
>> > 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.
>
> Just a suggestion: couldn't we maybe introduce an optional fallback
> DOWNLOAD link in .info's template to be used if upstream main link has
> been moved or doesn't work?
> E.g.
> [..]
> DOWNLOAD="http://xyz.net/somedir/xxxx.zip"
> MD5SUM="6d7d71a01ae5731a515ea3e6552cd843"
> DOWNLOAD2="http://zyx.com/yaddayadda/xxxx.zip"
> MD5SUM2="6d7d71a01ae5731a515ea3e6552cd843"
> [..]
>
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