[Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

[Doogster]

Yeah, the changed URL clearly seen in the user-facing "Releases" page.
I can confirm that this works:

wget --content-disposition
https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz

That downloads the following file:

OWSLib-0.16.0.tar.gz

Honestly, all 1000 SlackBuilds can probably be fixed with one sed command.
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 11:11 AM Eric Pratt <eric.b.pratt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:37 AM Benjamin Trigona-Harany
> <slackbuilds at jaxartes.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully my last email on this topic. Here's my recommended solution that
> > should be fully safe even if it does still requires a GitHub account:
> >
> > 1. Get your token as in my previous email
> > 2. Add a .netrc for root with the following line:
> > machine github.com login TOKEN password slack
> > 3. Make sure wget is being called with the --auth-no-challenge flag. For
> > exampl,e I have the following in my sbopkg.conf:
> > WGETFLAGS="${WGETFLAGS:--c --progress=bar:force --timeout=30 --tries=5} --
> > auth-no-challenge"
> >
> > As far as I can tell you need *something* for a password in .netrc - blank
> > won't do - hence the "slack". In any case, .netrc will restrict the use of
> > your GitHub token to only the GitHub domain.
> >
> > Unfortunately, wget needed the extra --auth-no-challenge flag, unlike cURL,
> > but adding this as a default is less disruptive than updating 1000-odd
> > SlackBuilds to accommodate the change in how GitHub is handling these URLs.
> >
> > Ben
>
> I'm not sure I fully understand the problem, but here's what I found.
> It looks like the URL pattern has changed to:
>
>   https://github.com/<project>/<repo>/archive/<tag>.<extension>
>
> So this works:
>
> $ ls
> $ wget -q https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz
> $ ls
> 0.16.0.tar.gz
> $ tar -xzf 0.16.0.tar.gz
> $ ls
> 0.16.0.tar.gz  OWSLib-0.16.0/
> $
>
> I tried this with a few projects with github DOWNLOAD URLs in the sbo
> repo and it's working for all of them.  No account is needed.
>
> On a side note, it appears that out of 1468 DOWNLOAD= entries in the
> repo that use github, 7 of them are using http while the rest are
> using https.
>
> $ grep -r '^DOWNLOAD=' * | grep -o 'http[s]*://github.*$' | wc -l
> 1468
> $ grep -r '^DOWNLOAD=' * | grep -o 'http://github.*$' | wc -l
> 7
> $ grep -r '^DOWNLOAD=' * | grep -o 'https://github.*$' | wc -l
> 1461
>
> It might be a good time to change all github downloads to use https
> URLs.  I know it's a minor issue.  But I stumbled across it while
> looking into this and thought I would do a one-time nag in case it
> matters.
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