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josephg

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 106

[SOLVED] Source's URL contains dynamic field - now what?

Hi there.

I recently adopted counter-strike-2d and I notice that Unreal Software's source URLs depends on a connection identification, which can be seen in the download link available in, for example, this file's download page. So, the real URL for me to the file would be

http://www.unrealsoftware.de/get.php?ge … 9355692755

But, of course, this 'cid' is not static, therefore is incorrect to have it in sources array in PKGBUILD.

Does anyone know how can I beat this issue in my PKGBUILD?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by josephg (2012-05-09 12:04:33)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [SOLVED] Source's URL contains dynamic field - now what?

Explain what you are doing to the developers, and ask them to consider providing a saner download setup.

If they say no, find something more productive to waste your time on.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,354

Re: [SOLVED] Source's URL contains dynamic field - now what?

Or put a note explaining that the user must download the source themselves (with a link to the download page). Won't work with helpers like yaourt, but that's no big loss

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xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: [SOLVED] Source's URL contains dynamic field - now what?

Or parse the website to generate the source link. E.g.

$ pkgver=0.1.2.0; echo "http://www.unrealsoftware.de/$(curl -Ss "http://www.unrealsoftware.de/get.php?get=cs2d_${pkgver//./}_win.zip&p=1" \
| grep -o '"get.php[^"]\+"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sed 's/&/\&/g')"

Last edited by xduugu (2012-05-09 09:12:54)

josephg

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 106

Re: [SOLVED] Source's URL contains dynamic field - now what?

I asked in Unreal Software for a static URL and today got 'sorry' as reply by the admin...
Anyway, xduugu's script works. I just had to make it in a function, to hide it from the AUR interface. Otherwise, AUR would print a lot of sources for the end-user, as the web interface doesn't parse well this black magic.

grabcid() {
  local file=cs2d_${_ver}_linux.zip
  echo "$(curl -Ss "http://www.unrealsoftware.de/get.php?get=${file}&p=1" | 
            grep -o '"get.php[^"]\+"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sed 's/&/\&/g')"
}
_cid=$(grabcid)

Problem solved! Thanks guys!

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