[Slapt-get-user] slapt-get fails to download: building wrong URI

[Emmanuel Florac]

Hi, I have this silly problem: when downloading upgrades, slapt-get
sometimes builds a bogus URI and therefore fails to download a
perfectly fine file. I've seen it by using the --print-uris option,
for instance it fails to download make and gxine, which is present in
both the standard and pasture: it tries to download from the
pasture/pasture subdirectory from the mirror (pasture is tagged as
PREFERRED, while slackware is tagged as OFFICIAL in slapt-getrc),
which obviously doesn't exist. I've had the problem with 0.10.2e and
0.10.2m. Even downloading the file by hand to /var/slapt-get/pasture
doesn't help.

$ sudo slapt-get --dist-upgrade --ignore-excludes --download-only
384/657 Réception de
http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-13.37/pasture/
make 3.81-i486-3 [5,0kB]
...Echec du téléchargement : HTTP response code said error


$ sudo slapt-get --dist-upgrade --ignore-excludes --download-only
--print-uris | grep make-3.81
http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-13.37/pasture/pasture/make-3.81-i486-3.txz


So far I removed the PREFERRED tag to pasture while I'm upgrading from
13.1 to 13.37, but that's a bit annoying.