procps-ng url not pointing to file

[Shurelia]

The url to procps-ng is ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/procps-ng/files/Production/procps-ng-3.3.9.tar.xz/ which points to the download page. When downloading with wget the html page is downloaded instead of the file.

This defect also breaks the jhalfs download process.

[bdubbs@…]

We will need to figure out how to handle this. When clicking on the url in the book, it does the right thing for me. When using wget, I get the file, but it is named index.html. Use the file command to check it.

We probably need to remove the trailing / because that seems to work with wget.

I suppose we could just pick a sourceforge mirror and get it without all the indirection:

​http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/procps-ng/Production/procps-ng-3.3.9.tar.xz

It's only about 550K and takes me about 6 seconds to download. traceroute shows it's 15 hops for me with about 50ms round trip time.

[Shurelia]

Who can fix this? or can I somehow fix this myself?

Just bumping this as this breaks the jhalfs download and build process.

[bdubbs@…]

When using jhalfs, it is extracting commands for the xml files. Just remove the trailing / from the line in packages.ent.

Alternatively, download the packages yourself instead of having jhalfs do it. Just edit the wget-list file.

[flyingpine]

Also want to mention that the md5sums file has a wrong format line which is exactly the procps-ng package. So could it be fixed since that md5sums is generated automatically according to these URLs(just my guess)?

[Pierre Labastie]

I have patched jhalfs (r3792), and the download is OK now, without manually editing the files. Let me know if this fixes your issue, and I'll close the ticket.

[Shurelia]

The download now works, but building is still broken at procps-ng with the following errorlog:

shaga@ubuntu-lfs:/mnt/lfs/jhalfs/logs$ cat 091-procps-ng
Thu May  8 10:37:56 UTC 2014

KB: 1765576     /

/jhalfs/lfs-commands/chapter06/091-procps-ng: line 5: cd: /sources/psmisc-22.21: No such file or directory

[Pierre Labastie]

Thanks for the report. I forgot about the package list generation (only changed the download url list), sorry. Should be fixed at jhalfs r3795.

[Shurelia]

You can close this ticket. Thanks!

[bdubbs@…]

I still need to fix it for other purposes, but I'm glad it's working for you.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 10557.