UT2004 not found in mirrors

bent · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 74 Location: New Zealand

Been running ut2004 fine for some time, but when trying to emerge it on a new machine, *** could not be found on any mirrors. As luck would have it, I just blew away everything in /usr/portage/distfiles to make space for ut2004-data, where there was probably a cached copy.

Searching the web, I noticed a lot of other places with links to download that file were also 404'ing, though with persistence I eventually found a copy. But I couldn't find any info on why it should no longer be on the Gentoo mirrors.

ChrisJumper · Veteran Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 1997 Location: Germany

Hi!

Check out: http://www.utserver.de/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,33/func,startdown/id,26/

Got that link from bugs.gentoo.org 506112 but its still not resolved in the upstream. :/

Regrats

bent · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 74 Location: New Zealand

As I'd mentioned I had already found a copy:

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bent · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 74 Location: New Zealand

Thanks Doc. Since it seems to have disappeared from so many places at once (about other sites I googled had links that 404'd) I wondered if it might have been no accident, as if Midway (or whoever owns the UT2004 rights) had sent takedown notices, perhaps?

I didn't find any reported bugs when researching the problem, so I'll open one. Cheers

EDIT: I didn't find it then, but there is in fact a bug open since March: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506112
The bug has a link to a good copy of the file, but nothing's been done since the bug was opened :/
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djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 751 Location: Arrakis

lets necro this bugger as this file seem to have diasppeared fagain rom everywhere but the dark web
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Ant P. · Advocate Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 4228 Location: UK

This isn't the first time this has happened, I had to file a bug for one of the base map packs going missing, and it looks like the rest are gone now too...

Don't know if anyone else has a better idea, but I'm going to install go-ipfs-bin and start throwing anything I can find on the web into it.
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Ant P. · Advocate Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 4228 Location: UK

Well, my plan works. Sort of.

I've gone hunting for everything needed to do emerge ut2004-ded ut2004-bonuspack-cbp{1,2} and put the files into ipfs:

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 751 Location: Arrakis

The map packs and such can be found tho, this particular patch however seems to have disappeared.
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hurikhan77 · n00b Joined: 01 May 2017 Posts: 3 Location: Germany

I took the challenge to bring this online in ipfs:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXQ98o5iv3fAXGNNTgJQwsJRp23ezkPvpnJzfBmEFcMtH

I pinned it in my ipfs storage so it stays online.

merlin2k · Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:59 pm Post subject:

hurikhan77 · n00b Joined: 01 May 2017 Posts: 3 Location: Germany

merlin2k · Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 7:18 pm Post subject:

It works finally!
Thank you very much!

hurikhan77 · n00b Joined: 01 May 2017 Posts: 3 Location: Germany