Several linuxwacom pkgbuilds error on download

Question

linuxwacom and linuxwacom-dev both error out in the downloading stage, as well as xf86-input-wacom.
This is not the case with linuxwacom-cvs however.
This happens both manually and with yauort, but that's to be expected if it's an external problem.
I don't really know what to do about it other than make this post, hopefully someone else does.

Answer 1

First ask yourself and remember when posting something of this sort: How does it 'error out', and on what file specifically? "During the download stage" is a better description than most people give, but still not quite enough.
Next: You should first look at the source=() lines in the respective pkgbuilds.
In the case of linuxwacom, you have
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linu … l}.tar.bz2
10-wacom.rules
linuxwacom-0.8.4_3-xorg17.patch
The latter two do indeed show up at the files area http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux … inuxwacom/ (Files link on AUR page).
Looking at the pkgbuild's variables, the former "$pkgname-${pkgver}${_rel}.tar.bz2" would convert to "linuxwacom-0.8.4-3.tar.bz2", so we have this hypothetical URL:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linu … -3.tar.bz2
If you put that in a browser, it fails and redirects to this sourceforge page http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxwacom/files/ .
If you look at that page, "$_rel" as "-3" no longer exists when the $pkgver is 0.8.4 (0.8.4-3). It's 0.8.4-4 now. Since you're sure the url is dead and not temporarily down or something you should tell the maintainer on the linuxwacom aur page comments if nobody else has reported it yet. Since you also know it is updated (from 0.8.4-3 to 0.8.4-4), you should use the "mark package as out of date" button on the aur page as well, which appears to have been done by someone else already for linuxwacom (but not -dev). The aur page comments are there for situations like this.
Repeat the procedure with other packages giving you problems; most maintainers are happy to help (and to have legitimate problems reported) and get things working if you've put forth the small effort to make sure it's not something wrong on your end.
Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-11-14 18:51:14)