[gobolinux-users] cant install xorg 7.1, Compile freezes

[teique]

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On 8/13/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>> On 8/11/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  # I type:
>> >  Compile -B xorg
>> >  # so I have all packages fetched previously to compile'em
>> >  # but then, the fetching/checking stops/freezes just after 
>> xorg-server
>> >  # look the last entry
>
> By the way, it just worked fine here. All files were fetched and I was
> redirected to the command line at the end of the operation. Maybe
> there was a timeout in certain url?
>
# ok, I did some brain-storm debug on these scripts: Compile, 
OptionParser and FetchArchive (they seem all ok about this matter btw 
^^); I think if I had used the "Verbose" option it would have been 
easyer to figure out ^^
# I found out that after the download of

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.1/src/xserver/xorg-server-X11R7.1-1.1.0.tar.bz2

# it was requiring the download of

$httpSourceforge/mesa3d/MesaLib-6.5.tar.bz2

# (these data are from the recipe of xorg-server)
# then I look for $httpSourceforge that is at

/Programs/Compile/Settings/Compile/Compile.conf

# that variable was pointing to

http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/

# but this url is unresponsive :/, I think it is an old setup from an 
old Compile version, I had problems with other packages from sourceforge 
also, cuz of same prob (I know it now)
# ok then I moved this path /Programs/Compile/Settings to a temp and 
typed SymlinkProgram Compile, but as it wasnt recreated I made a copy of

/Programs/Compile/Current/Resources/Defaults/Settings

# to

/Programs/Compile/

# and now

Compile -B xorg

# is working worked great (still compiling hehe)!!! XD

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# btw, that Settings path shouldnt be auto-recreated after 
SymlinkProgram in case it doesnt exist?

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# btw I was thinking...
# I understand that /Programs/Compile/Settings (the same to other 
packages that have Settings path created) should not be removed or 
updated automatically with package defaults,
# as user can make changes to it...,

# so I thought on a cool thing, instead of updating from time to time 
the variable httpSourceforge,
# if there could have a looped timeout at all servers where sourceforge 
keep files!
# (average download rate, server global proximity to user etc, well many 
ideas arise from that...)
# this same idea could be used to other sources that have known mirrors,
# it would work like

(example of dead server) 
httpSourceforge="http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/"

httpSourceforge="http://${baseURL}.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/"

# where baseURL would be set, in a loop, to each of these, after a 
timeout failure set at wget:

superb-east
ufpr
puzzle
mesh
superb-west
heanet
optusnet
nchc
kent
surfnet
jaist
switch
belnet
internap
easynews
umn

# I got this data from HTML source code of this url

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/audacity/audacity-src-1.3.0b.tar.gz?use_mirror=ufpr

# I think this would be very reliable concerning sourceforge files and 
other sources with mirrors :)

# I am going to implement it on a script like "FetchMirrors"
# that I will try to fit into FetchArchive (I think...) w/o much mess
# so I can easly patch new releases of Compile (unless u also like the idea)
# any tip is welcome :)

# I just still wonder if there is already some code to handle timed-out 
alternate-mirrors in a loop?