Re: [Mingw-users] mingw-get error: download failed.

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Thursday 17 June 2010 01:11:00 Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2010-06-16 23:22Z, Mauricio Gomes wrote:
> > C:\mingw>mingw-get update
> > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** Sync Repository:
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/
> > package-list.xml.lzma?download: download failed
> > mingw-get: *** WARNING *** Load catalogue: FAILED:
> > C:\mingw\var/lib/mingw-get/da ta/package-list.xml
> >
> > Then I tried to copy and paste the URL in Firefox and got this
> > error message: Erro no processamento de XML: erro de sintaxe
> > Posição:
> > http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20
> >Installer/mingw-get/catalogue/package-list.xml.lzma Número da
> > linha 1, coluna 1:]
>
> Reproduced here (in my local language). At first, I thought firefox
> was trying to parse 'package-list.xml.lzma' as an XML file, but see
> below.

It's always been that way for me too, but mingw-get has always done 
the right thing, regardless, so I haven't focussed much attention on 
the manual download issue -- the file isn't much use for anything 
outside the scope of an executing mingw-get process.

FWIW, I've now raised a support ticket on SF: #11767

> > Any suggestions ? Could it be a problem with this specific mirror
> > site ? How can I test with a different mirror ?
>
> If you know a server's name, try typing it in place of 'ufpr':
>
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20
>Installer/mingw-get/catalogue/package-list.xml.lzma ^^^^^^
>
> Same problem there, so I went to my favorite mirror:
>   ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/mingw/
> and followed the links down to here:
>  
> ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-
>get/catalogue/ and succeeded in downloading the file, extracting it
> with 'lzma', and then displaying it in firefox.
>
> And, indeed, on the server you tried, I can list the directory:
>  
> http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20In
>staller/mingw-get/catalogue/
>
> Might this be a sourceforge problem?

Seems to be a problem with the way most of their mirrors want to serve 
the file; it *should* just be treated as binary data, but the majority 
seem to be trying to serve it as XML; (it is, but compressed, and they 
don't seem to be able to comprehend the compression format).

> I tried this: 
>  
> http://sourceforge.net/downloads/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20Installe
>r/mingw-get/catalogue/package-list.xml.lzma/ a couple of times and
> got the same failure reported above, but now I try it again and it
> succeeds. That could be because the mirror is chosen at random:
> maybe some mirrors aren't up to date (the file is dated yesterday),
> but this one seems okay at the moment:

I've never had any problem with mingw-get retrieving it, (or any of 
its other catalogue files), from any mirror selected for me within 
the British Isles, or Western Europe, but none of them seem to permit 
a manual download through a browser, (Firefox on either GNU/Linux or 
MS-Windows, or IE6 on the latter).  Maybe wget or curl would work?

> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20
>Installer/mingw-get/catalogue/package-list.xml.lzma?use_mirror=super
>b-sea2

osdn also seems to work, but I haven't stumbled on any other.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.