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Updating Alien's multilib packages with slapt-get ?

Hi,

I'm wondering what am I doing wrong if trying to install/update packages from Alien's repository at http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current .

In /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc there is the following record:

Code:

# Alien's Multilib packages for Slackware64

SOURCE=http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/:DEFAULT

Running slapt-get -u went ok:

Code:

Retrieving package data [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Cached

Retrieving patch list [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Done

Retrieving checksum list [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Cached

Retrieving checksum signature [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Cached

Verifying checksum signature [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Verified

Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/]...Done

Reading Package Lists...Done

Now, if I want to fetch/install some package, slapt-get aborts with the following unspecific error:

Code:

# slapt-get -i glib2-compat32

Reading Package Lists...Done

The following packages will be installed:

  glib2-compat32

0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 972.0kB of archives.

After unpacking 3.7MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [y/N] y

1/1 Get http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ glib2-compat32

2.34.3-x86_64-1compat32 [972.0kB]...Failed to download: HTTP response code said error

Packages from other repositories can be installed without any issues.

You may be hitting a bandwidth issue there.
It is considered bad manners to use the slackware.com web server (http://connie.slackware.com/) as the source for your package downloads. It is much more polite to use a mirror instead, like:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...tilib/current/
Don't let the ".nl" domain fool you, this is a mirror server hosted in a US datacenter.
Or else, use http://www.slackware.org.uk/people/a...tilib/current/ which is a very fast UK mirror server.

Eric

I believe this is because the PACKAGES.TXT file in the multilib repo contains this extra bit

Quote:

PACKAGE MIRROR: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

which causes slapt-get to append that to the PACKAGE LOCATION. Maybe it should have not been there at all, which is what PACKAGES.TXT in the main source tree looks like.

To work around this, I rsync the whole directory to my local slapt-get repo and then rebuild the metadata using http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-g....html#slgFAQ17.

HTH

Quote:

Originally Posted by trnh (Post 4943668)

I believe this is because the PACKAGES.TXT file in the multilib repo contains this extra bit

which causes slapt-get to append that to the PACKAGE LOCATION. Maybe it should have not been there at all, which is what PACKAGES.TXT in the main source tree looks like.

To work around this, I rsync the whole directory to my local slapt-get repo and then rebuild the metadata using http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-g....html#slgFAQ17.

HTH

Great, I think this is the source of the issue. I can manually download packages with lftp, wget or other clients from the same server.
Maybe I have to send a notice to Eric about that.

Then report that as a bug in slapt-get please, I am not going to fix anything.

I added "PACKAGE MIRROR" because of slapt-get. See http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-get/plain/FAQ.html

Eric

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 4944404)

Then report that as a bug in slapt-get please, I am not going to fix anything.

I added "PACKAGE MIRROR" because of slapt-get. See http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-get/plain/FAQ.html

Eric

Hi,

you are correct, there is no issue with PACKAGE_MIRROR field. However there is a problem in PACKAGE_LOCATION, as in your repo PACKAGES.TXT it miss the leading path at every package record.

For example for repo on http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current the location record for compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-8alien.tgz should look like

Code:

PACKAGE LOCATION: ./current

.
Check the stock Slackware repos if you do not believe it.

Just remove the "current" from your slapt-getrc and it works:

Code:

SOURCE=http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/:CUSTOM

Fetches multilib automatically here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by torimus (Post 4945254)

For example for repo on http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current the location record for compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-8alien.tgz should look like

Code:

PACKAGE LOCATION: ./current

.
Check the stock Slackware repos if you do not believe it.

Of course not.
For repo http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/ ,the package location of compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-8alien.tgz is

Code:

PACKAGE LOCATION: .

(note the dot) exactly like it is written in slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/PACKAGES.TXT

Eric