Package Details: mpack 1.6-5

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/mpack.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: mpack
Description: Utilities for encoding and decoding binaries files in MIME format mail messages
Upstream URL: http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/
Licenses: GPL
Submitter: the-k
Maintainer: the-k
Last Packager: the-k
Votes: 2
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2020-08-05 14:36 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2020-08-05 14:36 (UTC)

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the-k commented on 2021-11-22 09:46 (UTC)

The site operator has unblocked curl on my request, so no further action is required.

the-k commented on 2021-11-21 11:11 (UTC)

Actually, it stopped working for me too when using curl. Wget still works though, which is weird. Have you tried writing to info@fossies.org? Sounds like a bug to me. DLAGENTS could be added to the PKGBUILD, but I would rather have this resolved with the site operator if possible. In the meantime, you can change DLAGENTS in makepkg.conf according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nonfree_applications_package_guidelines#Custom_DLAGENTS.

TrevCan commented on 2021-11-19 23:57 (UTC)

Hello @the-k @zkrx. Maybe it's regional. I'm in Mexico and get a 412 http error. From the returned html:

Sorry, requests from your client to "Fossies" are denied (caused by unaccepted request-header fields)!

Copying the link and pasting it on a web browser works every time. I tried adding some User Agent headers to a curl command like this: 

curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0" "https://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/mpack-1.6.tar.gz"

and that does yield a result, probing the outputted file does indeed says that it's a gzipped file. Is there a way to add user-agent headers to makepkg sources ?

the-k commented on 2021-11-14 10:31 (UTC)

@zkrx Works for me. A transient problem perhaps?

zkrx commented on 2021-11-10 11:04 (UTC)

I get HTTP 412 while trying to download mpack-1.6.tar.gz:

==> Making package: mpack 1.6-5 (Wed 10 Nov 2021 12:02:40 PM CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading mpack-1.6.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 412
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/mpack-1.6.tar.gz
    Aborting...
 -> error making: mpack

dsnxt commented on 2021-03-19 11:03 (UTC)

Unfortunately the legacy version does not preserves filenames for me. I figured out that the Debian package of mpack fixed that in 1.6-4. Maybe this could be integrated here aswell within the patch file. Corresponding Debian patch file can be found here: https://sources.debian.org/patches/mpack/1.6-8.2/01-legacy.patch/

I would have done it myself but this is out of my league.