It's now to be found at: https://root.cern.ch/download/pythia6.tar.gz instead of ftp://root.cern.ch/root/pythia6.tar.gz as can be seen in the upstream bug report (c.f. See Also).
Fixed. Thanks for reporting!
Not really... They not only changed location, but tarball checksum, size and content, keeping the same file name, of course :/ I'm now validating build with new tarball.
(In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #2) > Not really... They not only changed location, but tarball checksum, size and > content, keeping the same file name, of course :/ > > I'm now validating build with new tarball. Oops, sorry. I may have had the cached file in my $DISTDIR, so checksum did not change. In that case (same filename) how is the distfile file updated in the mirrors?
(In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #2) > Not really... They not only changed location, but tarball checksum, size and > content, keeping the same file name, of course :/ Oh my, I also missed that, thanks for checking! I alerted upstream (just to make sure they realize that silently changing an archive meant for distribution without bumping the version is a no-go) in the linked report. I also did a quick comparison of the old vs. the new tarfile. Two files have been changed: makePythia6.linuxx86_64 now uses gfortran instead of g77. makePythia6.macosx64 has been added. Thanks again!
(In reply to Guilherme Amadio from comment #3) > (In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #2) > > Not really... They not only changed location, but tarball checksum, size and > > content, keeping the same file name, of course :/ > > > > I'm now validating build with new tarball. > > Oops, sorry. I may have had the cached file in my $DISTDIR, so checksum did > not change. In that case (same filename) how is the distfile file updated in > the mirrors? Our mirrors just continue to distribute distfiles because new one has different checksum. There are two ways to fix this: 1) Make revision bump and save offending tarball to a separate name using "->" operator. This is how problem is fixed now: pythia-6.4.28-r1: https://root.cern.ch/download/pythia6.tar.gz -> pythia6-20160413.tar.gz. 2) Delete tarball from the local distfiles _and_ corresponding entry from the Manifest, update SRC_URI, then regenerate manifest. But this will break older ebuild which is still there and may disrupt our mirroring, so I preferred a version bump aproach. (In reply to Oliver Freyermuth from comment #4) > (In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #2) > > Not really... They not only changed location, but tarball checksum, size and > > content, keeping the same file name, of course :/ > > Oh my, I also missed that, thanks for checking! > I alerted upstream (just to make sure they realize that silently changing an > archive meant for distribution without bumping the version is a no-go) in > the linked report. Looks like they made this change years ago, but we noticed only now due to SRC_URI move. > I also did a quick comparison of the old vs. the new tarfile. Two files have > been changed: > makePythia6.linuxx86_64 now uses gfortran instead of g77. > makePythia6.macosx64 has been added. Yeah, this is nothing critical to our build process here, but due to distfiles collision I had to revbump.
