Bitshrine Availability

[milliways]

Does anyone know the status of the LTIB GPP at http://bitshrine.org/gpp?  I haven't needed it for a while, but now that I do I notice it's been returning HTTP 403 Forbidden for at least the past couple days.

Thanks.

-- Brian

[mikej]

Are you perhaps going through a proxy server? My company's proxy server arbitrarily prevents me from downloading all sorts of tools and packages. I usually work around these problems by taking a laptop to Starbuck's or McDonald's or the public library and downloading what I need there. I've also resorted to downloading the tar.bz2 files for various packages from project homepages, and just sticking the file in /opt/freescale/pkgs. One or the other of these workarounds might help you.

[milliways]

Nope, I'm directly connected to the Internet and just checked 10 seconds ago and I'm still getting HTTP 403 Forbidden.  Could you (or anybody) try to retrieve a package via browser, say http://bitshrine.org/gpp/readline-4.3.tar.gz, and see if its working for you?

Thanks, Mike.

[mikej]

Tried it from home. Still get the same error when I try to go to the site via my Firefox browser. Going to ftp://bitshrine.org/gpp, I get a prompt for a username and password. I was, however able to load the readline package using wget from a command line:

wget http://bitshrine.org/gpp/readline-4.3.tar.gz

If that doesn't work for you, I can email it.

[milliways]

wget worked for me too, so I'm all set.  I'm disturbed that bitshrine.org isn't working with LTIB, and curious who maintains it; it isn't a Freescale site though Freescale depends on it for its SDK.

Thanks again, Mike.

[mikej]

The ltib script uses wget too, and  specifies options for wget in variable wget_opts. The timeout and number of retries are probably less than the defaults used when you call wget from the command line. If you modify wget_opts to increase those values, you might be able to make wget work when called by ltib.

[milliways · Accepted solution]

Looks like the maintainer of bitshrine.org (the original author of LTIB) made some changes to restrict access only to LTIB, but they were faulty.  He's since corrected it and I can retrieve from the GPP just fine now.  Here's the discussion: [Ltib] 403 Errors.