Re: [Boost-users] Different checksums for different SourceForge locations

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Different checksums for different SourceForge locations
From: Carlos Ferreira (carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-04 17:27:48

Ok, I believe I discovered the issue. It was the URL that was being
malformed and for some reason, SF was redirecting to the snapshot version.

Thank you Rene for the info.

On 4 October 2016 at 22:09, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This is also failing
>
> http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/
> snapshots/master/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2
>
> On 4 October 2016 at 21:05, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> But the problem is, if I use the main link from source forge, I'm
>> redirected to the link that fails the checksum.
>>
>> I also have a report
>> <https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/3266#issuecomment-251472592>from
>> an OpenWRT dev, where he's also having the same issue.
>>
>> Question: Why not put the release files at Github. Since the source code
>> is already there, why not also have the package files hosted there?
>>
>> On 4 October 2016 at 21:01, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes! It seems that other links are failing as well.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried this one and it failed to validate the sha256 checksum.
>>>>
>>>> http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/sna
>>>> pshots/master/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2
>>>>
>>>
>>> So.. That's a snapshot. That has whatever the current master branch has.
>>> Hence it's *not* the release. And hence why the checksums don't match.
>>>
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>
>
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>
> Carlos Miguel Ferreira
> Researcher at Telecommunications Institute
> Aveiro - Portugal
> Work E-mail - cmf_at_[hidden]
> Skype & GTalk -> carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden]
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Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Researcher at Telecommunications Institute
Aveiro - Portugal
Work E-mail - cmf_at_[hidden]
Skype & GTalk -> carlosmf.pt_at_[hidden]
LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira