Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87662
Page out of date (Magnet and Metalink)
Last modified: 2017-05-20 08:56:42 UTC
It appears that http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html has not been updated since OOo 2.1. I was just trying to get OOo 2.4, but was unable to find a link there. By modifying the url, I was able to find metalinks up through 2.3.1. These can be found at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/openoffice/. I am willing to make a new metalink file for 2.4, but don't know how to update both the host of the metalinks (download.packages.ro) or the link (distribution.openoffice.org).
Created attachment 52406 [details] Just a quick metalink I made. Does NOT have all the mirrors.
Move to distribution project...
Prab, I can upload this page or get even more efficient and give you access to maintain the magnet page. The host of he metalinks can be directly contacted, I'd imagine, by pinging the .ro page. louis
I just looked around packages.ro, but couldn't find a way to contact the operator. It looks like he use an automated piece of software called "simba" to generate the metalink. He has the source code up, but I have never programed or used Perl. Have the mirrors changed much since v2.3.1? If not, I can copy the list of mirrors from the old metalink to a new metalink. Also thanks for uploading the old one, but it needs to be a plain .metalink. Right now it is a .metalink.html. The correct date is in the HTML source, but it is hard to extract.
Made a magnet link for 2.4 Window magnet:?xt=urn:kzhash:5f847854f3176144389032c0eeab5e1bdde5fbacd0e2e14a0f7b9b687cc4aa2208d240b4&xt=urn:sha1:05ad21ad7053d288ca4a3d6c02677fbb852d86c2&xt=urn:bitprint:AWWSDLLQKPJIRSSKHVWAEZ37XOCS3BWC.UK6UOH7SZRS76RK7CXS54V74RVNQ4YLMF32YGSI&dn=OOo_2.4.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe&xs=http://openoffice.mirrors.pair.com/ftp/stable/2.4.0/OOo_2.4.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe I will do the other versions soon. (I wouldn't mind access to the magnet page)
let me give you access. Done. But to post material, please ensure that you protect your IP and either use the PDL or sign the SCA. See http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html As well, as we use CVS and SSH2, you need to use those those technologies. See http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddSSHGuide.html. I have to upload your ssh2 key, and that page gives instructions. Please file a new issue per instructions and I'll deal with this expeditiously.... Louis
Sorry I never got time to follow the steps to correct the issue. As much as I would like to support Metalinks, I feel it is in the best interest of end users to remove the link to http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/. Right now people using those links will get a severely outdated version of OpenOffice.
Hello again, I noticed that this bug is still open and that the metalink page is still out of date. http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/stable/3.1.0/ has some excellent automatically generated metalinks for open office. Perhaps, the metalink page could be changed just to point to that page?
Hi Will follow suggestion and remove the link--after checking with mirrors group. louis
Official metalinks are indeed at http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/stable/3.1.0/ AFAIK MirrorBrain is replacing Bouncer (in charge of the mirrors), so all downloads will be metalink capable once that switch finally happens. It will all be automated, so http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html will not need to be updated for each new version that comes out. I don't have a problem with the page being removed. It would be nice if there could still be a link to metalink somewhere though :)
Cloph, this might be of your interest - any comment?
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