Re: fix chessx

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Adam Kandur via <address@hidden> 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