Re: iso-codes yet again (was: Re: Aw: [ANNOUNCE] GARNOME 2.15.3)

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Fixed [once again] in CVS...

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 19:26 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > GARNOME 2.15.3
> > > ==============
> > > 
> > > The  "It's quiet out there... Yes... Too quiet..."  release.
> > [...]
> > 
> > Looks quite good until now. The errors I had before are not gone by
> > now, but I should be content. However, there's no "isocodes" folder on
> > ftp.gnome.org, which forces a stop in building the system.
> 
> Have a look at the Makefile for bootstrap/iso-codes. The MASTER_SITES
> variable points to the original location, where that tarball is to be
> expected. Well, to be expected... used to live. Until "someone" removed
> it again. Just as they did with the last tarball.
> 
> 
> As a quick workaround, I just put the iso-codes tarballs on my personal
> space on f.g.o for your download pleasure. Just grab the tarball you
> need and drop it into the bootstrap/iso-codes/download/ dir.
> 
>   http://gnome.org/~kbrae/garnome/
> 
> 
> Regarding "not being on f.g.o": I explained this pretty detailed
> recently, I believe. Anyway... GARNOME checks some different locations
> for the tarball, starting with local ones (files and download
> directories), then the GARCHIVEDIR, and after that it tries the remote
> locations.
> 
> In this case, the explicitly set MASTER_SITES. If this fails (which it
> should not...), GARNOME defaults back to the globally defined master
> site, which is f.g.o, since most tarballs are located there anyway. So
> the last failing download you see is just the last-resort fallback, not
> the actually failing source location...
> 
> 
> That all said... Thanks for the heads-up. :)  I already noticed that
> (again) missing tarball the other day [1], but did not have the time to
> fix it yet. We need a more reliable fallback solution anyway. So either
> the RT and me will come up with a solution at GUADEC next week, or you
> simply can consider the above mentioned place to be permanent. GAR.
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
> [1] monkey knows about this -- he logged me screaming and ranting, while
>     no one else was around... ;)
> 
> -- 
> char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
> main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
> (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
> 
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