[Slapt-get-user] skip package option when error 404 received

[Roy Keene]

Nigel,

     I've had this problem with various package repositories keeping 
entries in their PACKAGES.TXT file and then deleting the package.  I'm not 
really sure why they do it, perhaps they're bored ?

Not to get off on a rant here, but ... Linuxpackages.net is notorious for 
doing so.  I've contacted them about it and they didn't really seem to 
care.  Their response was really that they weren't attempting to be a 
source for automated packaging systems so they didn't think it was worth 
the effort (actually, I believe they told me keeping the PACKAGES.TXT in 
sync with the actual files was too man-power intensive.)  I mirrored them 
for a while and provided proper PACKAGES.TXT on slackware.rm-f.net (now 
slackware.oc9.org), but they got mad and threatened to charge me money for 
downloading the packages off their FTP servers.. who knows.

Archive of the email:
     http://slackware.oc9.org/text/linuxpackages.txt

All the scripts I use to keep my archive up-to-date are also on 
slackware.oc9.org, in bin:
     http://slackware.oc9.org/bin/

So, in conclusion.. people do weird things with their package 
repositories.  I don't know why.  Some people are just crazy.

On Wed, 11 May 2005, nigel henry wrote:

> Hi Folks. I'm using Slackware 10.0. Some problems when doing a slapt-get
> --update and then a slapt-get --dist-upgrade from audioslack repo. Some
> packages halfway through a dist-upgrade bring up an error 404 "Failed to
> download". Would it be possible to build into slapt-get an option to skip
> packages that bring up this error? As it is, without putting packages with
> error into /etc/slapt-getrc's Exclude option the dist-upgrade is unable to
> proceed. I have not had this 404 error with apt on FC1,FC2,Debian, and am not
> sure what it is. Perhaps something to do with broken packages. I will post
> this problem to audioslack as it may be a problem with certain packages.
> Another problem seen after running slapt-get --update and then slapt-get
> --dist-upgrade is a long string of "Regex Error: Invalid preceding regular
> expression
> Failed to compile regex" I see that regex is used to set exclude options for
> packages in /etc/slapt-getrc. I tried running slapt-get --update and then
> slapt-get --install regex --reinstall, but continue to have the same output
> between slapt-get --update and slapt-get --dist-upgrade. Any comments no
> matter how crude would be welcome. Nigel.
>
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