UT2004 not found in mirrors

[bent]

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]

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]

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

[The Doctor]

[bent]

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]

lets necro this bugger as this file seem to have diasppeared fagain rom everywhere but the dark web
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[Ant P.]

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.]

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]

The map packs and such can be found tho, this particular patch however seems to have disappeared.
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[hurikhan77]

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]

[hurikhan77]

[merlin2k]

It works finally!
Thank you very much!

[hurikhan77]

[barul]

Some files are still missing from the mirrors :-/
It's a pity for such a great game

[hurikhan77]

[Ant P.]

It looks like this topic's relevant again now that 17.0 is forcing an emerge -e @world on everyone - everyone with these installed is going to get fetch errors from them.

You don't need to reinstall them for the profile switch, they're just data files and unaffected by it. I'm not sure about the main game, but as a proprietary blob reinstalling it won't help either. Do something like this to save yourself the time: