fix chessx

fix chessx

[Adam Kandur via]

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hi everyone! recently i tried to install chessx on my laptop, there were errors. then i decided to test in my channel. and, i fixed link for downloading chessx. hope will be usefull.

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diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
index 63977f9..34eacb3 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
@@ -10313,7 +10313,7 @@ and chess engines.")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
-       (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/chessx/chessx/"
+       (uri (string-append "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/chessx/chessx/"
                            version "/chessx-" version ".tgz"))
        (sha256
         (base32 "09rqyra28w3z9ldw8sx07k5ap3sjlli848p737maj7c240rasc6i"))))

Re: fix chessx

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Adam Kandur via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> hi everyone! recently i tried to install chessx on my laptop, there
> were errors. then i decided to test in my channel. and, i fixed link
> for downloading chessx. hope will be usefull.

FWIW, I have no problem building chessx in its current form. In
particular, I don't get any error downloading the source tarball.
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
> index 63977f9..34eacb3 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
> @@ -10313,7 +10313,7 @@ and chess engines.")
>      (source
>       (origin
>         (method url-fetch)
> -       (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/chessx/chessx/"
> +       (uri (string-append "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/chessx/chessx/"

The mirror should be more general than your specific URL. Maybe it was
a transient error.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou