[Slackbuilds-users] whaw source tarball download returns 404 error; newer version available.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Fri Sep 5 00:32:54 UTC 2014


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> Wanted to build/install whaw, but it turns out the link to 
> whaw-0.1.2.tar.gz is dead now.  In its place are whaw-0.1.3.tar.gz 
> (ancient) and whaw-0.2.tar.gz (recent), both of which can be found
> at http://repetae.net/computer/whaw/drop/ .  I went with whaw 0.2
> ( http://repetae.net/computer/whaw/drop/whaw-0.2.tar.gz ), which 
> compiles and runs as expected and without issue.
> 
> The attached patch (very simple; aside from a version change, the 
> manpage changed places) should make the existing SlackBuild work
> with version 0.2's tarball (it did on my system).

I fixed the download source on my branch pointing to Salix-sbo project
on SF, but this package hasn't been updated by the maintainer since
it's inclusion back in 2010. If you are interested on taking over
maintainenace of this package, please submit an update to 0.2

Thanks


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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