On 22 July 2017 at 12:23, Johannes Pfau via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > I just updated the gdc-6 branch in my repo to gcc 6.4.0 and the CI > started to fail downloading the tarball. Turns out that the .bz2 > tarball was replaced with a .tar.xz tarball for gcc 6.4.0 and I guess > it'll be similar for all new releases: > ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-6.4.0/ > > What's the best workaround for this? Simply trying .xz first and if > that fails trying .bz2? Or switching to .gz tarballs entirely? >
Just switch it to whatever is the current. Downloading the xz would be better for size.
