Re: [gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

2006-02-19 Thread Brad Cowan
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:20 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Berlios have introduced a new Sourceforge-like download.php thing that > requires that any download attempt include a magic key in the URL. > Thus, Berlios can no longer be used inside SRC_URI. > > It gets worse. Even if you specify the m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

2006-02-19 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:32, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > As I understand it, our mirror scripts rely upon wget being able to > fetch the correct tarball from the original location. Well, I'd expect them to fail gracefully when the tarball is clearly invalid and not to inject the junk. But I don

Re: [gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

2006-02-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:21:16 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > It gets worse still. It looks like many our mirrors have broken | > copies of certain Berlios-hosted tarballs. | | Shouldn't that be a general problem with ou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

2006-02-19 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > It gets worse still. It looks like many our mirrors have broken copies > of certain Berlios-hosted tarballs. Shouldn't that be a general problem with our mirrors - unless Berlios got hacked and modified tarballs injected, of course?! > D

[gentoo-dev] Berlios-hosted SRC_URI components

2006-02-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Berlios have introduced a new Sourceforge-like download.php thing that requires that any download attempt include a magic key in the URL. Thus, Berlios can no longer be used inside SRC_URI. It gets worse. Even if you specify the magic key, Berlios seems to shove an extra random garbage byte onto t