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FS#40014 - [mathomatic] fails checksum

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Roman Neuhauser (roman-neuhauser) - Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 12:35 GMT
Last edited by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 19:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

==> Making package: mathomatic 16.0.5-1 (Tue Apr 22 14:36:13 CEST 2014)
==> WARNING: Skipping dependency checks.
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading mathomatic-16.0.5.tar.bz2...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 396 100 396 0 0 977 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 977
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
mathomatic-16.0.5.tar.bz2 ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
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Closed by  Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane)
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 19:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Roman Neuhauser (roman-neuhauser) - Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 16:09 GMT
so this is because mathomatic.org uses some funky stuff, and the link to the tarball gives an HTML page instead. :(
luckily, http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/math/download.html mentions that "latest release tarball is also available at the Mathomatic mirror site: mathomatic.orgserve.de."

http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/mathomatic-16.0.5.tar.bz2 passes the checksum.

please update the PKGBUILD with the working url.
Comment by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 17:31 GMT
This would not be the right decision, browsing the page shows several broken links, also the .md5 files are missing. Have you informed George (Upstream) about this?
Comment by Roman Neuhauser (roman-neuhauser) - Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 21:10 GMT
George Gesslein II died last year :((

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?pid=163311956

we exchanged a few emails when i wrote the freebsd port for mathomatic, what... it's been 9 years already!? http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=133081

anyway, so how do we proceed here?
Comment by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 19:40 GMT
That's sad to hear, I was not aware of this. I'll update the URL but we should also keep private copies of the code, in case the mirror also fails and there won't be another real upstream page.

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