Package Details: memtest86-efi 1:11.5build1000-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/memtest86-efi.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: memtest86-efi
Description: A free, thorough, stand alone memory test as an EFI application
Upstream URL: https://www.memtest86.com
Licenses: GPL2, custom:PassMark
Submitter: UnicornDarkness
Maintainer: UnicornDarkness
Last Packager: UnicornDarkness
Votes: 112
Popularity: 0.002354
First Submitted: 2013-10-29 10:25 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-09-18 16:57 (UTC)

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Sources (4)

Pinned Comments

UnicornDarkness commented on 2019-06-08 08:52 (UTC) (edited on 2019-06-08 08:53 (UTC) by UnicornDarkness)

As you probably know, the <https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip> URL is likely to cause problems, like this error:

==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    memtest86-efi-8.2.zip ... FAILED

To avoid this problem, I prefer to reupload memtest86-usb.zip archive somewhere else, where this kind of breakage will not appear.

I can't upload this archive on AUR directly (archive is 8 MB but AUR accepts 250 KiB maximum), so I decide to put this archive on my Git repository to avoid future breakages.

I hope it suits you.

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UnicornDarkness commented on 2025-11-26 19:25 (UTC)

@Strykar: As discussed by email with PassMark support, they won't. So I am not going to change, because if I switch to https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip, it will break package build time to time (like in 2019).

Strykar commented on 2025-11-22 14:10 (UTC)

@UnicornDarkness Email upstream and ask them for stable URLs. Until then you have to watch out for updates.

UnicornDarkness commented on 2025-11-22 12:31 (UTC)

@Strykar: The source file is hosted on https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/AUR-packages, because the official URL (https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip) is not versioned, which means that it breaks the package when the upstream archive change (see the pined comment).

Strykar commented on 2025-11-21 22:44 (UTC)

The URL appears to work fine and download passes checksum. Why are you self-hosting this again?

veganvelociraptr commented on 2024-02-11 12:42 (UTC)

Seems it was due to me having 7-zip-full installed instead of p7zip. Installing p7zip fixed it.

veganvelociraptr commented on 2024-02-11 12:39 (UTC)

ls -l "/tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img"
-rw-r--r-- 1 x users 1,0G 2024-02-08 07:59 /tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img

7z e -y "/tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img" 'EFI System Partition'

7-Zip (_) 23.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2023 Igor Pavlov : 2023-06-20
64-bit locale=sv_SE.UTF-8 Threads:32 OPEN_MAX:1024, ASM


Codec Load Error: /usr/lib/7z.so : E_FAIL : Unspecified error

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 1073741824 bytes (1024 MiB)

Extracting archive: /tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img
ERROR: /tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img
Cannot open the file as archive


Can't open as archive: 1
Files: 0
Size: 0
Compressed: 0

UnicornDarkness commented on 2024-02-10 15:10 (UTC)

@veganvelociraptr please provide output of following commands:

ls -l "/tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img"
7z e -y "/tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img" '*EFI System Partition*'

veganvelociraptr commented on 2024-02-10 13:53 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-10 13:53 (UTC) by veganvelociraptr)

ERROR: /tmp/makepkg/memtest86-efi/src/memtest86-usb.img
Cannot open the file as archive

UnicornDarkness commented on 2023-12-11 12:56 (UTC)

@SteelT: Nice catch. Fixed in 06d68c731d67, thanks.

SteelT commented on 2023-12-11 07:04 (UTC)

The update hook should be updated to not use the deprecated File alias for Path, to avoid it suddenly breaking in a future release of pacman.

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