How to handle broken sources

[Anachron]

I was asking myself if we should run a script periodically (like check-updates) that checks if the source is still available?

[leahneukirchen]

Loads fine here, and virtual hosting is nothing new either.

We have copies of old tarballs on https://sources.voidlinux.org/openbox-3.6.1/ and else use Debian as a fallback.

Ideally they'd add the tarballs to the releases of course.

[Anachron]

Yeah I figured it's on my end, read my third reply. I'm still debugging.

Nonetheless, I think a script to watch for broken links cannot hurt in the future.

Edit: Edited the issue to reflect that this topic is now about a script to check for missing sources.

[r-ricci]

Nonetheless, I think a script to watch for broken links cannot hurt in the future.

It shouldn't be too hard. Something like this will verify the hashes too (but also download a lot of stuff):

rm -rf hostdir/sources
for i in $(find srcpkgs -name template | cut -d / -f 2); do
        ./xbps-src -I fetch "$i" >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "$i: broken distfiles"
done

This one will just check if the the server returns a successful status code:

source common/environment/setup/misc.sh
for pkg in $(find srcpkgs -name template | cut -d / -f 2); do
        unset homepage changelog distfiles
        source srcpkgs/"$pkg"/template 2>/dev/null
        for i in $homepage $changelog $distfiles; do
                i="${i%>*}"
                if ! curl --silent --location --head --fail -o /dev/null "$i"; then
                        echo "$pkg: url $i is broken"
                fi
        done
done

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