Re: [fink-core] Fwd: Re: Best option to select a particular mirror for wget/curl download

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 9/27/11 5:57 AM, Max Horn wrote:
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> Am 27.09.2011 um 01:06 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
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>> On 9/26/11 5:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>> I asked SF.net about how to replace our ailing mirror list with
>>>  something that still contains geographic information and
>>> here's the response.  It looks like we'd need to do some
>>> additional coding to implement it.
>> 
>> I've also been playing around with Using 
>> "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<project path>".  This
>> works with wget, but not curl:
>> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.31.2' -O 
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave\ Forge\ 
>> Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz % Total    %
>> Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time Current 
>> Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left Speed 0     0    0     0
>> 0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- - --:--:--     0 curl:
>> (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 ### execution of curl
>> failed, exit code 22 Downloading the file
>> "multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz" failed.
> 
> This error is caused by the spaces in the filename. Wget
> automatically converts these to %20, but curl doesn't.
> 
> Once I replaced the spaces manually by %20, curl worked just fine.
> A simple sed or perl statement can of course automate this. Note
> that wget will accept the URL with %20, too. So maybe we should URL
> encode URLs before passing them to the downloader tool?
> 
> Bye, Max

Thanks! I was able to use

Source:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave%%20Forge%%20Packages...

in a .info file and it works for wget, curl, axel, axelautomirror,
lftpget, and aria2, so we don't even need to do anything additional
for my particular corner case. :-)

My thought here is that it looks like we'd have to do significant
extra coding to do explicit mirror selection from sourceforge now, so
instead we might want to start having packages use

Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<path/to/tarball/>

rather than

Source: mirror:sourceforge:<path/to/tarball>

and allow sf.net's automatic mirror selector to do its thing.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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