CentOS Bug #1367234 (was: Re: SRCEXPR pointing to wrong SVN URL on CentOS 6.x)

Gabriele Pohl <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Oct 2016 11:58:10 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:46:20 +0000 (UTC)
Sysadmin Team <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are having an issue with /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb with package: 
> 
> # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb 
> smartmontools-5.43-1.el6.x86_64 
> 
> CentOS 6.7 x86_64 

btw: you should upgrade to current CentOS release 6.8
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-May/021895.html


> It appears that the SRCEXPR points to the wrong URL, for example: 
> 
> SRCEXPR='http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/$location/smartmontools/drivedb.h?revision=HEAD' 
> 
> This should be: 
> 
> SRCEXPR='https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/$location/smartmontools/drivedb.h?format=raw'; 

> Just notifying the list of this issue, so it can be corrected in the next update. 

As we don't build CentOS Packages Bugzilla is the platform to address.
I saw that there exist a bugticket for this issue already 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367234#c2

As a workaround you can also download drivedb.h manually:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#Updatethedrivedatabase

HTH and cheers,

Gabriele

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