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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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dl.sourceforge.net

Is it just me, or is anybody else having trouble building aur packages that download from dl.sourceforge.net? Both aurbuild and yoghurt time out on me, as does running makepkg explicitly. I have to download using firefox and then build the package...

Dusty

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dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Your local mirror that it defaults to could be down - I have problems with that occasionally

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

yeah I normally have to edit the source to unc.dl.sourceforge and it always works, but thats a NC mirror.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Interesting... thing is, I *always* get this error from makepkg and wget, and *never* from inside firefox. Perhaps my chosen mirror doesn't allow direct connections.

I'd rather get away from editing the PKGBUILD each time, because I like these automated aur build tools. ;-)

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Dusty

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Sourceforge are money-grabbing bastards...

http://sourceforge.net/subscription.php

You have to pay to have a direct download now. I guess you can still connect to a mirror, but we've been telling people that linking to dl.sourceforge.net in the PKGBUILD was the right thing to do. What do we tell them now?

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dtw

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From: UK

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

but the dl url should redirect you to a mirror...

Dusty

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

It used to, but I guess they turned it off so they can charge you for that functionality...

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elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

It seemed to work for me in Firefox...it redirected to the file I tried to download.  If this is a change on SourceForge's side, do we need to update PKGBUILDs in the AUR?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

maybe there's a wget setting in makepkg.conf that can be changed if it works in firefox?

FJ

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2005-03-17

Posts: 75

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Maybe we should set wget to send a fake user-agent-string.  Would that fool SF?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

The dl.sourceforge.net url worked for me today for a package. But sometimes it doesn't work.

dlin

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From: Taipei,Taiwan

Registered: 2005-09-21

Posts: 265

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

try mywget in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15737

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rose

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 64

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Just add this line to your /etc/hosts file:

<ip_of_your_favourite_mirror> dl.sourceforge.net

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Just add this line to your /etc/hosts file:

<ip_of_your_favourite_mirror> dl.sourceforge.net

excellent!!!!

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

wah just wanted to say thx for this little nice trick... this should be pinned somewhere or anything... how delicious

jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Just add this line to your /etc/hosts file:

<ip_of_your_favourite_mirror> dl.sourceforge.net

Does this still work with your mirrors?

I can't get it to work, neither setting
213.186.33.91 dl.sourceforge.net
nor
mesh.dl.sourceforge.net dl.sourceforge.net

works.

Only if I change the download-url (in a package of the AUR, e.g. davtools) from "http://dl.sourceforge.net/blah" to "http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/blah", it works...

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

Still working fine here, jakob, with heanet. It seems mesh has changed IP address:

$ ping mesh.dl.sourceforge.net
PING mesh.dl.sourceforge.net (213.203.218.122) 56(84) bytes of data.

jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: dl.sourceforge.net

tbh, i tried several different dl.sf.net-mirrors:
#213.203.218.122 dl.sourceforge.net
#213.186.33.91 dl.sourceforge.net
#195.141.101.221 dl.sourceforge.net
#dl.sourceforge.net mesh.dl.sourceforge.net

and could not remember exactly which one was mesh then. But as you can see, I also tried it with the IP you found, but i'm going to test some other servers (like heanet e.g).

//edit: damn, it actually works with heanet and/or 193.1.193.6, but NOT with mesh, thanks for "clearing that up"