sourceforge.net download issues (was: Re: files not found when installing Gnome with garnome)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I took a look on sourceforge. It appears that version 1.71.0 has been
> removed.  I see version 1.70.1 [as well as 1.71.1 and 1.72].

Nope, docbook-xsl-1.71.0 still is available from sf.net.

I just tested this myself. And I paranoidly checked the latest GARNOME
release to ship this very version. ;)  I did, however, get the usual
sf.net hiccups.

This is just the well known sf.net infrastructure (read mirror) issue.
dl.sf.net is a round-robin DNS, pointing at varying mirrors for load
balancing reasons. Some of these mirrors apparently tend to time out,
instantly respond with a "404 Not Found" error, or in some rare cases
even have been caught serving some HTML file stating a "not found".
Obviously, the latter is plain wrong, and luckily doesn't seem to occur
often. A mirror timing out or just refusing to know about a tarball
happens more frequently, though.


> >  ==> Grabbing download/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> >         ==> Trying file//files/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> > make[1]: ** [file//files/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2] Erro 1

Normal GAR behavior. First, check if we provide the file.

> >         ==> Trying file///docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> > make[1]: ** [file///docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2] Erro 1

Next, try the GARCHIVE, if this file has been downloaded and archived
before. From the 3 slashes right in front of the file name I can tell
you did not set the GARCHIVE variable in gar.conf.mk -- which is
perfectly fine, unless you want to use it.

> >         ==> Trying http//dl.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> > --16:44:50--  http://dl.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> >            => `download/partial/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2'
> > Resolvendo dl.sourceforge.net... 150.65.7.130, 128.101.240.209,
> > 193.1.219.87, ...
> > Conectando a dl.sourceforge.net|150.65.7.130|:80... conectado.
> > HTTP requisi� enviada, aguardando resposta... 404 Not Found
> > 16:44:51 ERRO 404: Not Found.
> > make[1]: ** [http//dl.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2] Erro 1

Then try the MASTER_SITES, as specified in the garballs Makefile. Here
we see the real issue -- a bad sf.net mirror.

> >         ==> Trying
> > http//ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/docbook-xsl/1.71/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> > --16:44:51--  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/docbook-xsl/1.71/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2
> >            => `download/partial/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2'
> > Resolvendo ftp.gnome.org... 130.239.18.137, 2001:6b0:e:2018::137
> > Conectando a ftp.gnome.org|130.239.18.137|:80... conectado.
> > HTTP requisi� enviada, aguardando resposta... 404 Not Found
> > 16:44:51 ERRO 404: Not Found.
> > make[1]: ** [http//ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/docbook-xsl/1.71/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.bz2]
> > Erro 1

The last fallback resort is the globally defined MASTER_SITES of f.g.o,
which is the default for anything officially part of GNOME, and a lot of
other (extra as well as dependency) tarballs. Since this one is not
hosted at f.g.o, this fails, too.

Normal behavior. Since MASTER_SITES are explicitly defined, the failing
download before this one is the real issue.


> > looks like it failed to download from both Sourceforge and Gnome
> > repositories... what should I do? Just wait 'till one of the servers
> > gets back up, or is it more complicated than that? =/

Yes, it does. The reason why it does hopefully should be clear by the
above inline commenting of what really happened. :)


As long as the tarball actually still is at the expected download
location (which it is), there is one way to fix this kind of temporary
sf.net mirror glitch -- keep insisting. :)

$ cd bootstrap/docbook-xsl
$ make fetch

You will see the IP to download from changing. If it doesn't succeed,
try fetching again -- eventually, it will grab the tarball from a good
mirror. Once you got the tarball, simply cd back to where you started
the build in the first time (likely desktop/) and run the command again
you issued to start the build (make paranoid-install). GARNOME will pick
up where it left off.

  guenther


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