make fetch and "302 Moved Temporarily"

[Eitan Adler]

On 4 July 2012 14:39, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> On 4 July 2012 10:24, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4 July 2012 08:56, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> In the case of having a "302 Moved Temporarily" answer when trying to
>>>>> make fetch, what is the best action, overriding FETCH_ARGS or changing
>>>>> MASTER_SITES to directly point to that new location?
>>>>
>>>> You should make it point to the new location (unless it changes often).
>>>
>>> OK. I don't know if it changes a lot, but in the last few days I've seen:
>>>
>>> http://eu1.visual-paradigm.com/visual-paradigm/vpuml10.0/{20120715, 20120718}/
>>
>> Are these different files or versions?
>
> They're supposed to be the same version (10.0) but the files are not identical:
>
> MD5 (Visual_Paradigm_for_UML_Unix_NoInstall_10_0_20120715.tar.gz) =
> 1ddf753829b5f53ddeb35812165851e2
> MD5 (Visual_Paradigm_for_UML_Unix_NoInstall_10_0_20120718.tar.gz) =
> d536eec7235feed1c19603ae9d27e153
>
> On June 18 they updated the VP quick start guide, but it is not
> included in the above tarballs. I didn't do a diff through the whole
> directory.

Upstream rerolling distfiles, fun - at least they make it obvious by
changing the directory date. Its best to use the final target in this
case.


-- 
Eitan Adler