[Slapt-get-devel] Use slackware.uk/sbosrcarch as alternative source for downloads

[George Vlahavas]

And naturally I forgot to free alt_url... Oops.

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, George Vlahavas wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> You're probably aware of this project that tries to mirror all source files 
> used in SBo:
> http://slackware.uk/sbosrcarch
>
> Since the biggest problem of SBo is broken downloads, it is very useful if a 
> tarball cannot be downloaded from its original location. I think it might be 
> a good idea for slapt-src to try to find the missing tarballs in slackware.uk 
> if the original one cannot be reached.
>
> I wrote a patch for this, which I'm sending now. I'm not sure if this is 
> something you would like to have in slapt-src, or if this is the best way to 
> implement it, but I tried it with a few SlackBuilds that have a broken 
> download link at this moment and it works for me...
>
> SlackBuilds that you can use for testing right now include:
> - distrho-mini-series
> - distrho-ports (this one has multiple downloads)
> - fbterm
> - fst
> - jost_bin
> - libebur128 (fails to download from both)
> - eric (downloads from primary URL but fails md5 check)
> - libxbgi
>
> and probably a lot more.
>
> What do you think?
>
> George
>
>
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