[Buildroot] [PATCH] Update github helper URL.

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Nov 13 20:15:42 UTC 2014


On 13/11/14 21:06, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>> On 13/11/14 20:48, Patrick Williams wrote:
>>> Github changed the URL syntax from 'archive' back to 'tarball'.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <iawillia at us.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  package/pkg-download.mk | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/package/pkg-download.mk b/package/pkg-download.mk
>>> index 4cfb913..03907f1 100644
>>> --- a/package/pkg-download.mk
>>> +++ b/package/pkg-download.mk
>>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ notdomain=$(patsubst $(call domain,$(1),$(2))$(call domainseparator,$(2))%,%,$(c
>>>  domainseparator=$(if $(1),$(1),/)
>>>
>>>  # github(user,package,version): returns site of GitHub repository
>>> -github = https://github.com/$(1)/$(2)/archive/$(3)
>>> +github = https://github.com/$(1)/$(2)/tarball/$(3)
>>>
>>>  ################################################################################
>>>  # The DOWNLOAD_* helpers are in charge of getting a working copy
>>>
>>
>>  Yep, that seems to work! So Yann, stop working :-)
>>
>>  I haven't tested if it's exactly the same tarball. It redirects to a URL
>> containing legacy.tar.gz instead of tar.gz, so who knows...
> 
> I can't follow all this madness.
> 
>>>> a10disp a899cc6dcf909360aac00482ede5369f3656f226 Downloading
> --2014-11-13 20:57:54--
> https://github.com/hglm/a10disp/archive/a899cc6dcf909360aac00482ede5369f3656f226/a10disp-a899cc6dcf909360aac00482ede5369f3656f226.tar.gz
> Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.252.129
> Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.252.129|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: https://codeload.github.com/hglm/a10disp/tar.gz/a899cc6dcf909360aac00482ede5369f3656f226
> [following]
> --2014-11-13 20:57:54--
> https://codeload.github.com/hglm/a10disp/tar.gz/a899cc6dcf909360aac00482ede5369f3656f226
> Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.252.146
> Connecting to codeload.github.com
> (codeload.github.com)|192.30.252.146|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
> 
> Here the original URL with 'archive' still works. So what's the fuzz about?
> 
> 

 I guess someone complained to github and they reverted it...

 I just tried
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/13.2-Gotham/xbmc-13.2-Gotham.tar.gz

which failed for Peter this morning, and it works now.

 The funny thing is, it _doesn't_ redirect to the legacy...


 Regards,
 Arnout

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