Bugzilla Bug 117650

Attempts to install the vlnx-432e-r2 package fail due to an inability to
connect to ftp://kane.evendata.net  This site appears to be down, which
cripples the ability to install McAfee's virus scanner.  I've synced my portage
tree as recently as today.  The problematic URI is:
ftp://kane.evendata.net/pub/vlnx/check-updates.sh.gz

The actual output of the problem during an "emerge vlnx" is:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-antivirus/vlnx-432e-r2 to /
>>> Downloading ftp://kane.evendata.net/pub/vlnx/check-updates.sh.gz
--15:18:43--  ftp://kane.evendata.net/pub/vlnx/check-updates.sh.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/check-updates.sh.gz'
Resolving kane.evendata.net... 216.105.107.2
Connecting to kane.evendata.net|216.105.107.2|:21... failed: Connection timed
out.
Retrying.


Is there another source for this check-updates script, or some other workaround
for this?

Additionally I found a thread on forums.gentoo.org where someone encountered
the same problem as long ago as Nov. 11, 2005 and it appears to have never been
resolved.

--Todd

ticho: bump.

removing the SRC_URI and the install/execute from the ebuild, resulted in the
old emerge of vlnx which had always worked in the past.
If I want to update virus definitions, I can always do it on my own...

Recommending a -r3 with that script removed, at least until it gets hosted
somewhere more reliable. perhaps http://gentoo.org/~merlin

... installed fine except for needing scan.dat and names.dat - that's a tad
unusual.
But, not a big deal, those are easily locateable online.

umm. and clean.dat sorry.
ok. all 3 of those. and most places that have one, have the other 2 :)

Ebuild marked stable, but sources not fetchable for more than half a year, if I
read this right. If no one cares for the package, it should better be removed
from the tree.

(In reply to comment #6)
> Ebuild marked stable, but sources not fetchable for more than half a year, if I
> read this right. If no one cares for the package, it should better be removed
> from the tree.
> 

Will you put out the 30-day notice to -dev and get rid of this? If not can I
refer it to the tree cleaners? We have a large thread about this on the forum
and we need to do something about this either way.

re-assigned to tree-cleaners and cc'd maintainer-needed.

I moved check-updates.sh out of portage because it was quite large.  Then
kane.evendata.net went down.  I will move this to dev/~merlin.

uvscan still works, and I am able to obtain the source reliably with the latest
version.

Check-updates.sh puts the DAT files in the wrong directory when it performs an
update.  I could alternatively turn this file into a patch.  If you can take
this out of pending removal, and give me two weeks, I'll get it working.

All yours

(In reply to comment #9)
> I moved check-updates.sh out of portage because it was quite large.  Then
> kane.evendata.net went down.  I will move this to dev/~merlin.
> 

Can you put this here instead?:

dev.gentoo.org:/space/distfiles-whitelist/current/

It will stay for 6 months and can be renewed if necessary. It makes it
available on the public mirrors instead of putting strain on dev.gentoo.org[1].

> uvscan still works, and I am able to obtain the source reliably with the latest
> version.
> 
> Check-updates.sh puts the DAT files in the wrong directory when it performs an
> update.  I could alternatively turn this file into a patch.  If you can take
> this out of pending removal, and give me two weeks, I'll get it working.
> 

Thanks for this. A lot of users will be very grateful[1]. :-)


[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/mirrors/overview-distfile.xml
[2]https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-475474.html

The ebuild is still broken in the actual portage tree.
Is there any progress?

package.mask-ed; last rites e-mail will be sent out to -dev shortly.  Also
removing merlin@g.o from the CC: since this bug is assigned to him.

Resolving CANTFIX.

I got it

drizzt: if you're maintaining this, can you remove maintainer-needed from CC?

In CVS as release 4510e

This package will be removed from or p.masked in the tree. 
Reason being unresolvable security problem.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=116585820326434&w=2
If you wish to see this package return to the tree. Please work with 
upstream and get the rpath problems resolved. A NULL rpath is harmful.