Package Details: memtest86-efi 1:10.7build1000-1

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: 113
Popularity: 2.20
First Submitted: 2013-10-29 10:25 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-02-08 18:13 (UTC)

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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 2019-02-26 23:29 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-26 23:30 (UTC) by UnicornDarkness)

@ortango: It will not solve problem with sha512sums. Problem is upstream file is not versioned (memtest86-usb.zip), so it breaks sha512sums every time the file is changed (e.g. when a new version is available).
In my opinion, it is an upstream issue. I miss the old URL like <https://www.passmark.com/ftp/>$_pkgbasename-usb-$pkgver.$_build.zip.

ortango commented on 2019-02-26 20:25 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-26 20:27 (UTC) by ortango)

@Popkornium18

do you have the zip cached in your SRCDEST folder? if so, delete it and try again.

maybe this package should name the source file like "name-version.zip::theinternet.com/file.zip" to avoid this.

Popkornium18 commented on 2019-02-26 19:49 (UTC)

memtest86-usb.zip checksum still fails.

UnicornDarkness commented on 2019-02-26 12:02 (UTC)

@intartso: Ok, fixed, thanks.

BoostCookie commented on 2019-02-26 08:43 (UTC)

For me the sha512sum for memtest86-usb.zip fails.

UnicornDarkness commented on 2019-02-17 12:42 (UTC)

@ron2138: Mounting the loopback device requires to be root, but makepkg should never be run as root. From wiki:

Running makepkg itself as root is disallowed. Besides how a PKGBUILD may contain arbitrary commands, building as root is generally considered unsafe. Users who have no access to a regular user account should run makepkg as the nobody user.

So, no, sorry, I will not do changes in the PKGBUILD to allow to build this package as root.
If you have an alternative way to extract the .img file as regular user, why not.

ron2138 commented on 2019-02-17 12:17 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-17 12:20 (UTC) by ron2138)

When there are root privileges, can the p7zip dependency eliminated with losetup, as in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316401/how-to-mount-a-disk-image-from-the-command-line?

UnicornDarkness commented on 2018-12-07 13:21 (UTC)

@feral_hedgehog: Fixed, thanks.

feral_hedgehog commented on 2018-12-07 13:05 (UTC)

I've been having issues with the grub entry install option after the latest update. The 86_memtest file that gets created under /etc/grub.d isn't executable and is missing a backslash before the '$' in the if-statement, which prevents the entry from being added to grub.