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GregW

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From: 53°24'N 2°35'W

Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 56

ABS and Truecrypt

Hello all.

I'm using ABS to compile truecrypt as I have a home rolled kernel.

when attempting to build the package, the source tarball cannot be found:

[burro@el-diablo truecrypt]# makepkg --asroot
==> Making package: truecrypt 4.3a-13  (Tue Apr  1 19:50:15 BST 2008)
==> WARNING: Running makepkg as root...
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz...
--2008-04-01 19:50:15--  http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz
Resolving www.truecrypt.org... 72.36.226.2
Connecting to www.truecrypt.org|72.36.226.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2008-04-01 19:50:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz
    Aborting...
[burro@el-diablo truecrypt]#

sure enough, http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/true … ode.tar.gz does not exist as 4.3 is not available to download on the truecrypt site.

I eventually got hold of the source using a gentoo mirror, ironic that, as I dumped Gentoo to move to Arch or Ark if the website notification is not an April Fool I hope it is because mien deutsch ist scheisse

Is this worthy of a bug report?
Cheers
GregW

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: ABS and Truecrypt

It's not an Arch bug. You could try reporting it to Truecrypt, but their policy is to provide the current source only for download - that link was only valid when 4.3a was current. They provide a limited number of past versions as pre-compiled debs/rpms, but apart from that you're on your own.