Bug 42651 – sam2p-0.43 cannot download package

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Siuchung Cheung (Clement) 2004-02-23 13:30:19 UTC]

* For some reasons, the author feels like releasing packages as sam2p-latest.tar.gz from now on. So downloading sam2p-0.43.tar.gz will give you file not found. Old packages cannot be found anymore.
* mv sam2p-latest.tar.gz sam2p-0.43.tar.gz won't work. Why? because the latest version is 0.44. How do I even know that the latest is 0.44? Actually you can't possibly tell. He didn't even list the version number on his website. The only way to find out is to extract files from the tarball and see.

I'm not sure how to completely fix the 0.43 ebuild unless gentoo mirror his old packages. Currently the only solution is the download the latest, rename it to 0.44 and cp the ebuild to make a 0.44 ebuild. In the long run, we might end up with an ebuild that breaks everytime he upgrades the packages. :-(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sam2p


Actual Results:  
file not found :-( 

Expected Results:

[Comment 1 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-04-15 14:57:15 UTC]

I emailed the maintainer a few days ago, hoping that an @gentoo.org email address might help persuade him :-) but I haven't heard anything back yet.

If we don't get an "upstream fix" then I'll snapshot sam2p and put it on the Gentoo mirrors as sam2p-0.xx.tar.gz. For irritating technical reasons I can't do it at the moment.

Tom

[Comment 2 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-04-25 07:02:08 UTC]

I didn't get any reponse from the maintainer.

So, the source code is now stored under the filename sam2p-0.44.tar.bz2. When new versions of sam2p come out I'll copy and rename them onto gentoo's servers.

It also turns out that his makedep script borks if distcc is used, so I've put in a work-around.

0.44 now in CVS. Thanks for reporting.

Tom