Bug 8492 – ebuild URLs that point to CGIs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Justin Huff 2002-09-27 20:18:47 UTC]

I'm in the process of writing an ebuild script for phpGroupWare
(http://www.phpgroupware.org).  They have a rather annoying way of downloading
the files (well, I found another way). The URL you go to is:
ttp://www.phpgroupware.org/downloads.php?filename=phpgroupware-0.9.14.000.tar.bz2&files_dir=downloads_phpgw

This causes two problems.  First, the URL needs to be quoted before being sent
to wget.  I don't know where the best place to do it, but I decided to add it to
/etc/make.globals.  Second, the ibiblio.org caching code gets confused and tries
to download:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/downloads.php?filename=phpgroupware-0.9.14.000.tar.bz2&files_dir=downloads_phpgw

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-09-27 20:49:10 UTC]

http://www.phpgroupware.org//downloads_phpgw/phpgroupware-0.9.14.000.tar.bz2

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-19 22:41:13 UTC]

CGI's are annoying, and not really fixable.
Only thing I can sugggest is to find a non-cgi, or
have it posted to ibiblio.