[Slackbuilds-users] Problem downloading pdfchain - may affect other packages

[arkadiusz at drabczyk.org]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:51:34AM -0300, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> I use -current but I believe this issue affects any Slackware verson so
> I report here.
> 
> Today I tried to build pdfchain with sbopkg and I had a problem: the
> file name of the downloaded source file should have been
> 'pdfchain-0.4.4.2.tar.gz' but came as 'download' instead.
> 
> Then, sbopkg promptly complained that it couldn't build the package
> since the source was nowhere to be found.
> 
> I think this have to do with sourceforge.net's download system, which
> is unnecessarily convoluted and obfuscated, so maybe other packages
> with source downloaded from sf.net may be affected.
> 
> Renaming the 'download' file to the appropriate name solves the problem
> and building can proceed without issue.

It probably happens because it has the following line in .info:

DOWNLOAD="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfchain/files/pdfchain-0.4.4.2/pdfchain-0.4.4.2.tar.gz/download"

It should be changed to:

DOWNLOAD="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfchain/files/pdfchain-0.4.4.2/pdfchain-0.4.4.2.tar.gz"

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Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz at drabczyk.org>