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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.

Yes, that should work as well but only affects one substitution per backslash whereas single quotes disable it globally (whole cat). I'm not sure why you choose that more error prone way (especially as you don't need substitution at all in the cat process) but its your decision. See Example 19-7. Parameter substitution turned off: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html

Yes, I understand that, that's why I think using [ "\$grub_platform" = "efi" ] should fix this problem. [ "x" = xefi ] is a nonsense, it should be always false.

What i wanted to tell you is that this exactly happened here. Your script just copied this line: [ "x" = xefi ] and thus broke the condition completely in grub.cfg so the entry could never appear. I'm aware how that x comparison works. It started working properly once the single quotes around EOF were set.

@Maniaxx: Ok, after looking files in /etc/grub.d, I've added missing shebang. cat <<EOF is used is these scripts (I've removed training space before EOF). 'EOF' is not used. In "x${grub_platform}", 'x' is useless. Should be "\$grub_platform" according to other scripts. Changes are pushed. I don't increase pkgrel, due to memtest86-efi script doesn't update configuration.

The '86_memtest' script probably should start with #!/bin/sh like all the other scripts in /etc/grub.d (it works anyway though) and there's a bug in the first line (missing single quotes): cat << EOF should be: cat << 'EOF' Otherwise [ "x${grub_platform}" = xefi ] results in [ "x" = xefi ] as ${grub_platform} gets expanded at cat runtime from local environment (that is not set). The single quotes make sure that the text gets copied literally.

This issue applies to Haswell E chips as well. http://www.passmark.com/forum/memtest86/6061-interesting-issue-running-memtest86-v7-0-free-with-i7-6700k

Fixed. Bump to 7.1 and use HTTP instead HTTPS.

Following commit added https: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/PKGBUILD?h=memtest86-efi&id=705fb5c1c1769fd0d53aa097dde36c3fc83449c9 According to jamesan comment, I'd revert the commit to use the working http method until it gets fixed on their server. I tried to play around and see if it works, but makepkg fails (md5 changed). When extracting memtest86-7.0.iso.tar.gz, I get Memtest86-7.1.iso. md5 for memtest86-7.0.iso.tar.gz is the same as memtest86-7.1.iso.tar.gz I managed to fix it by upgrading to 7.1 at the same time: git revert 705fb5c1c1769fd0d53aa097dde36c3fc83449c9 + following patch: diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO index 9668a77..5caeb36 100644 --- a/.SRCINFO +++ b/.SRCINFO @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ -# Generated by mksrcinfo v8 -# Wed Jul 27 18:04:51 UTC 2016 pkgbase = memtest86-efi pkgdesc = A free, thorough, stand alone memory test as an EFI application - pkgver = 7.0 + pkgver = 7.1 pkgrel = 1 url = http://www.memtest86.com install = memtest86-efi.install @@ -14,12 +12,12 @@ pkgbase = memtest86-efi optdepends = efibootmgr: to add a new EFI boot entry optdepends = grub: to add MemTest86 entry in GRUB2 menu backup = etc/memtest86-efi/memtest86-efi.conf - source = memtest86-7.0.iso.tar.gz::http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-iso.tar.gz + source = memtest86-7.1.iso.tar.gz::http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-iso.tar.gz source = memtest86-efi source = memtest86-efi.conf source = grub.conf source = systemd-boot.conf - md5sums = c709d3147295defc50e3f2b0e779a88e + md5sums = ed0ffd04d2d9ce72fc2a9fd871ebdd98 md5sums = 6d78d97e54e9feb75e3b1f835297ffd8 md5sums = 6c096df3f55baf3e27c3bd605a418aa2 md5sums = f848ecf41edb2d95f469ff2251bcfa4a diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD index 4fce194..407fb13 100644 --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ _pkgbasename=memtest86 pkgname=$_pkgbasename-efi -pkgver=7.0 +pkgver=7.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A free, thorough, stand alone memory test as an EFI application" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ source=("$_pkgbasename-$pkgver.iso.tar.gz::http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/$_ "memtest86-efi.conf" "grub.conf" "systemd-boot.conf") -md5sums=('c709d3147295defc50e3f2b0e779a88e' +md5sums=('ed0ffd04d2d9ce72fc2a9fd871ebdd98' '6d78d97e54e9feb75e3b1f835297ffd8' '6c096df3f55baf3e27c3bd605a418aa2' 'f848ecf41edb2d95f469ff2251bcfa4a'

The HTTPS URL to the ISO tarball no longer works. The non-secure HTTP URL works though: http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-iso.tar.gz.