generaluser-soundfont: update to 1.471

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

GeneralUser has been updated, but the regular link under

• ​https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8126161/GeneralUser_GS_1.471.zip

no longer works for me.

The link

• ​https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/GeneralUser_GS_1.471.zip

or rather:

• ​https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/GeneralUser_GS_1.471.zip?dl=1

does, but only conditionally. In any case I'm unable to convince MacPorts to download the file.

I tried following ​PortfileRecipes and used

master_sites        https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/${distfiles}?dl=1&dummy=

but all I can get is some HTML page requesting accepting cookies.

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

Have you tried wget "https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/GeneralUser_GS_1.471.zip"? That works for me, from the commandline.

As a temporary measure, would it be possible to download the archive manually and install it on the MacPorts mirrors so clients will download it from there?

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

This works for me:

master_sites        https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/

fetch {
    system "wget ${master_sites}/${distname}${extract.suffix} --progress=bar:force -O ${distpath}/${distname}${extract.suffix}"
}

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                    sha256  4203835164766f428c4926c097c9ea58dae431c7fb8f9dbe277b92d80da45ec2

[slewsys (Andrew L. Moore)]

In e5a420ccf2ea47e8264ca8a68d899369370317bb/macports-base (master):

portfetch.tcl: Add option fetch.user_agent.

When MacPorts attempts to fetch from DropBox, it gets HTML instead
of the requested file. This is because MacPorts sets libcurl's User-Agent
header in curl.c to "MacPorts/MP_VERSION libcurl/LC_VERSION", which DropBox
responds to as a web brower. The problem was first reported in
#53942 with regard to port
audio/generaluser-soundfont.

This PR adds an option `fetch.user_agent' which can be set in Portfile
as needed. For example, in audio/generaluser-soundfont/Portfile, adding:

fetch.user_agent curl/MacPorts/4.xx

allows fetch to work without a custom fetch block. If `fetch.user_agent'
is not set, UserAgent as defined in curl.c is used instead.

In the particular case of DropBox, setting the User-Agent header to
"libcurl/..." doesn't work as one might hope, otherwise swapping the
order of values in curl.c UserAgent variable would be suggested as an
alternative.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

As suggested in comment:2, you can override the fetch phase and run whatever arbitrary commands you need to, so if this is not available for download from any better-behaved server, you can go that direction. I would avoid wget though since it doesn't come with the OS and so requires an extra dependency.

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

You're not wrong about that. I honestly cannot remember if using curl directly solved the issue (I do remember that I never know how to use that command properly; wget is so much more user-friendly, to me at least).

Mojca's proposal for fetch.user_agent does make sense, but as always with adding features to base, it would make the port break for anyone who for some reason cannot update.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

No need, this works:

master_sites        https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/${distfiles}?raw=1&dummy=

i.e. the magic needed is raw=1 rather than dl=1.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Or this works even better:

master_sites        https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4x27l49kxcwamp5/

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

In a803e96cc0c9d59f3ebdc138b4e2e3e35f81b60f/macports-ports (master):

generaluser-soundfont: update to 1.471

Closes: #53942
Closes: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1978