Bug 375197 – www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17 download removed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description John Stile 2011-07-14 17:44:36 UTC]

The ebuild for www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17 no longer works because the download from  http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ no longer exists.  Please unmask www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.18 in portage or some how fix www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17 ebuild.

Emerge output:
emerge www-client/firefox-bin

 * IMPORTANT: 15 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17
>>> Downloading 'http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases//3.6.17/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.17.tar.bz2'
--2011-07-14 10:35:42--  http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases//3.6.17/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.17.tar.bz2                                                                                                                 
Resolving releases.mozilla.org... 64.50.236.214, 128.61.111.9, 129.101.198.59, ...                                         
Connecting to releases.mozilla.org|64.50.236.214|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-07-14 10:35:43 ERROR 404: Not Found.

!!! Couldn't download 'firefox-3.6.17.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
 * Fetch failed for 'www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17', Log file:
 *  '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.17/temp/build.log'

[Comment 1 Myckel Habets 2011-08-22 14:01:27 UTC]

@mozilla, time to stabilize a newer version (3.6.18)?

[Comment 2 Myckel Habets 2011-08-30 19:02:25 UTC]

This will be fixed with bug 379549.

[Comment 3 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2011-08-31 19:41:24 UTC]

I've fixed the URL, shouldn't break anymore.