Re: Problems downloading tarball with curl

Christian Schaffner wrote:

> Dear developers
>
> I am the package maintainer of subversion for fink (MacOS X). Today I
> tried to upgrade to 0.30.0 but i ran into the following problem: Fink
> downloads tarballs (by default) with curl. But curl doesn't seem to
> cope with the latest changes on the website:
>
> curl -f -L -O
> http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/6494/subversion-
> 0.30.0.tar.gz
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed
> Time Curr.
> Dload Upload Total Current
> Left Speed
> 100 442 100 442 0 0 524 0 0:00:00 0:00:00
> 0:00:00 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00
> --:--:-- -2009
> ...
> 100 435 100 435 0 0 2265 0 0:00:00 0:00:00
> 0:00:00 0
> curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed
>
> So I asked today on #svn and "plasmabal" had the same problems trying
> to do the fbsd port.
>
> What is the best way to solve that? Is this a bug or a "feature"?

I'd say it's a horrible feature, but I can download the tarballs with
wget, which saw only about 2 redirects.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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