Hi all,
While working on an ebuild I noted that that while downloading distfiles
from the mirrors I ended up with files filled with 404 HTML pages. It
became clear soon, that curl was just downloading these pages and
returned 0 to indicate success. After a discussion with 2r2d in #-osx
we came to the conclusion that curl needs the -f (-fail) flag in order
to return something like this on a 404:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
I tested this in my FETCHCOMMAND (I put the -f just in front of the -#)
and verified that with this flag curl behaves as portage expects it and
goes on to the next mirror if the file was not found.
I think this change should be into our installer, as it is a simple fix
which prevents some hair-pulling :)
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Fabian Groffen
eBuild && Porting
Gentoo for Mac OS X
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