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Adopted and added new upstream source.

There is an error when installing this package. Could you look into it? Here is what I received in stdout:

==> Starting build()...
using /usr/bin/gcc
using /usr/bin/ar
using /usr/bin/install
using /usr/bin/strip
using /usr/bin/ld
using /usr/bin/ranlib
using /usr/bin/gcc -M
could not find: help2man help2man; proceeding anyway...
using /usr/bin/make

configured for GNU make


 BaseZ
 Version 1.6.2

 Copyright (C) 2013, 2015, 2016 Milan Kupcevic


/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o basez.o basez.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base32.o base32.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base16.o base16.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base64.o base64.c
/usr/bin/gcc -o basez -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now basez.o base32.o base16.o base64.o   
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
install: cannot create regular file '/home/myself/AUR/basez/pkg/basez/usr/share/doc/basez/': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:300: install-docs] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

After installing help2man as a make dependency, the latter error still doesn't go away:

using /usr/bin/gcc -M
using /usr/bin/help2man
using /usr/bin/make

configured for GNU make


 BaseZ
 Version 1.6.2

 Copyright (C) 2013, 2015, 2016 Milan Kupcevic


/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o basez.o basez.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base32.o base32.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base16.o base16.c
/usr/bin/gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -c -o base64.o base64.c
/usr/bin/gcc -o basez -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now basez.o base32.o base16.o base64.o   
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
install: cannot create regular file '/home/myself/AUR/basez/pkg/basez/usr/share/doc/basez/': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:300: install-docs] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

Adopted and added new upstream source.

Would it be possible to use this mirror on GitHub for the source? The latest release, v1.6.2 was created on December 2022.

• $url gives HTTP eror 404 "Not Found".
• Source download gives HTTP error 403 "Forbidden".

Regards!

The upstream URL http://www.quarkline.net/basez is dead and so are the four source URLs in this package: http://www.quarkline.net/basez/download/(basez-1.6.2.tar.gz|basez-1.6.2.tar.gz.sig|sha256checksumssha256checksums.sig).

https://web.archive.org/ has copies from 2023-12, and the OpenPGP signature verifies, but I doubt it would be good practice to install from there.

Adopted and fixed; make sure to obtain the PGP key before building.

Here are sources of the fixed package which compiles fine https://gist.github.com/k3a/c49c0924ad48da21d51aa044f714ef42

Hi, thanks for maintaining this package. I have found some issues and am providing a patch file to fix all these (please see further below).

The issues this package has (in the order of severity, starting from blocker/worst):

• It does not compile; fails at package() stage, there is a patch available through Debian source,

• The license file is actually a combination of GPL3, BSD (2-clause) and CC-BY-SA 3.0, not GPL,

• Upstream source provides sha256sum which should be used instead of md5sum,

• (minor) pkgdesc= is well over 100 characters,

Here is the log file when built as-is: https://paste.rs/MLn

Here is the patch file which addresses all the aforementioned issue:

--- PKGBUILD.orig
+++ PKGBUILD
@@ -2,15 +2,25 @@

 pkgname=basez
 pkgver=1.6.2
-pkgrel=2
-pkgdesc='Encodes/decodes base16, base32, base32hex, base64, base64url, base64mime, base64pem PEM, base32plain, base64plain. base16 and base32 are NOT included in this package since they would conflict with the one already in coreutils.'
+pkgrel=3
+pkgdesc='base 16/32/64 encode/decode data to standard output. base16/32 are OMITTED since coreutils provides it.'
 arch=('x86_64')
 url='http://www.quarkline.net/basez/'
 depends=('gcc-libs')
-license=('GPL')
+license=('GPL3' 'CCPL' 'BSD')

-source=("http://www.quarkline.net/basez/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-md5sums=('b026890b9565bd2cba93afdbcd3213aa')
+source=("http://www.quarkline.net/basez/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+       "https://sources.debian.org/data/main/b/basez/1.6.2-1/debian/patches/build"
+       "https://sources.debian.org/data/main/b/basez/1.6.2-1/debian/patches/missing-runstatedir-option")
+sha256sums=('2a9f821488791c2763ef0120c75c43dc83dd16567b7c416f30331889fd598937'
+            '0cda0fba0ac1319e6bdf9fb9c14b09bc9ad96bd0873e9feba9a4156ebe382242'
+            'a99ff69e357f13e025717cb7e080a3e17fd30110bb29f480b154b47254f35d63')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  patch -Np1 -ti ../build
+  patch -Np1 -ti ../missing-runstatedir-option
+}

 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
@@ -21,4 +31,6 @@
 package() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+  install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
+  rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
 }

Upstream is gone...