Build failure: ida-free: https://web.archive.org/ is unreachable

BlaiZephyr commented 1 week ago

Steps To Reproduce

try installing ida-free will fail because the source url is unreachable.

Steps to reproduce the behavior: nix-shell -p ida-free

there will be a hash mismatch, fixing it will show that the site is unreachable, also doublechecked with ping:

❯ ping web.archive.org
PING web.archive.org (207.241.237.3) 56(84) Bytes an Daten.
^C
--- web.archive.org ping-Statistik ---
46 Pakete übertragen, 0 empfangen, 100% packet loss, time 46094ms

Build log

trying https://web.archive.org/web/20240330140328/https://out7.hex-rays.com/files/idafree84_linux.run
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:02:13 --:--:--     0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to web.archive.org port 443 after 133979 ms: Could not connect to server

Additional context

this would be easily fixable but i can't find any resource without registering myself on the website. so i hope msanft can figure this one out :)

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Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

❯ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.54, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241009.5633bcf`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-24.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/60sn02zhawl3kwn0r515zff3h6hg6ydz-source`

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msanft commented 1 week ago

See https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message

I think this should be resolved soon without any changes. If you want to work around it now, just remove the archive mirror so that it's downloaded only from the Hex-Rays website. What other fix did you have in mind when you say "this would be easily fixable but i can't find any resource without registering myself on the website"?

BlaiZephyr commented 1 week ago

Ida-free beeing downloaded straight from their URL, not using web.archive for it, so basically what you mentioned by using hex-rays, website. But I didn't find a mention of ida-free, only their pro variant.

TiL they're experiencing these ddos attacks, sorry I missed that.

What was the reason to use the web archive as a mirror btw ?

msanft commented 1 week ago

What was the reason to use the web archive as a mirror btw ?

It's a precautionary measure so that if Hex-Rays decides to remove the download, the package is still buildable.

You can download the file via https://out7.hex-rays.com/files/idafree84_linux.run. Just replace the URL in the package.nix with that and it should build again. But I don't think this is something we want upstreamed now, since the web archive should (hopefully) be back up soon.

BlaiZephyr commented 1 week ago

alright, thanks for your quick answer! i will close this with that information and reopen if needed!

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