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#5417 GUB: bzip2 link should be updated

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GUB (16)
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2018-11-11
2018-09-18
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While trying a fresh 'make bootstrap' on debian 9, I got an error when trying to download bzip2.
As reported by LWN, bzip.org seems now a free domain...

At the moment you can replace the link in gub/specs/bzip2.py with:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170824030156/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz

There's a comment in above article saying:

bzip.org is unfortunately no longer available for the bzip2 project. It will soon be restored at its former project home at https://sourceware.org/bzip2 (which currently only hosts older releases).

Before fixing GUB, let's wait and see if it gets restored.

Related

Issues: #5420

Discussion

  • Federico Bruni

    Federico Bruni - 2018-09-18

    GUB can't find the file and downloads an HTML page.. so first remove it:

    rm downloads/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz
    

    then get the real .tar.gz file from Archive:

    wget -P downloads/bzip2 https://web.archive.org/web/20170824030156/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz
    
     

    Last edit: Federico Bruni 2018-11-11
  • Federico Bruni

    Federico Bruni - 2018-11-11

    I have enough with above manual change each time I test a new GUB build, so I've sent a PR here:
    https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/50

    I wouldn't bother with Rietveld code review for such a minor change.
    I hope Phil can just merge it.

     
  • Federico Bruni

    Federico Bruni - 2018-11-11
    • status: Accepted --> Started
    • assigned_to: Federico Bruni
     
  • Federico Bruni

    Federico Bruni - 2018-11-11
    • status: Started --> Verified
     
  • Federico Bruni

    Federico Bruni - 2018-11-11

    eventually this PR (using Debian mirror) was merged:
    https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/49