On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Sebastian Wiesner < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Did you try to contact the admin of the hosting site? > Hmm, good idea actually, no, I haven't. Thanks for the heads up. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]>wrote: > [2011-09-23 10:54:23 +0200] SanskritFritz: > > The problem is that makepkg uses wget to download the sources > > Just a note: curl will be the default in the next release. > That is good news I guess, although I prefer wget's output with the progress bar much more. I wonder, how many PKGBUILDs will break because of this :) > My question is, what is the recommended way now. Should I host the file > somewhere, or should I modify the PKGBUILD so that it downloads and unpacks > the source manually, or is there another way I overlooked? The cleanest way should be to just add > > DLAGENTS=('http::/usr/bin/curl -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o > %o %u') > > next to the source=() array in the PKGBUILD, with a comment explaining > the situation. > Thanks, that was the perfect solution <3. So, when new the makepkg will be released, I can drop that line. Thank you for your help. Best regards
