FS#29663 - [firefox] Switch to http source

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Yaohan Chen (hagabaka) - Monday, 30 April 2012, 03:18 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 30 April 2012, 07:18 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The PKGBUILD downloads the source archive through FTP instead of HTTP. I see that this change was made in version 6.0:
-source=(http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${pkgver}/source/firefox-${pkgver}.source.tar.bz2
+source=(ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases//${pkgver}/source/firefox-${pkgver}.source.tar.bz2

Currently the HTTP source URL does work, and besides FTP being less efficient, there seems to be no caching proxy solution in official repositories for FTP but there are for HTTP. Therefore I think the PKGBUILD should use HTTP instead.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Monday, 30 April 2012, 07:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 30 April 2012, 06:59 GMT
it was changed because they didn't preserver old versions and downgrading by changing only pkgver wasn't possible.
Comment by Yaohan Chen (hagabaka) - Monday, 30 April 2012, 07:09 GMT
Ah, this seems to work for older versions:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${pkgver}/source/firefox-${pkgver}.source.tar.bz2

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