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Bug 1900559 - Curl Metalink support needed: now --metalink option is ignored because the binary is built without the Metalink support.
Summary: Curl Metalink support needed: now --metalink option is ignored because the bi...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: curl
Version: 7.9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Daniel Rusek
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-23 11:35 UTC by TTvardovska
Modified: 2020-11-23 11:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-23 11:55:31 UTC
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CMaka metalink file (754 bytes, application/metalink+xml)
2020-11-23 11:35 UTC, TTvardovska 		no flags Details
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CentOS 17873 0 None None None 2020-11-23 11:35:26 UTC

Description TTvardovska 2020-11-23 11:35:26 UTC 
Created attachment 1732459 [details]
CMaka metalink file

Created attachment 1732459 [details]
CMake metalink file cmake.metalink

Description of problem:
Now --metalink option is ignored because the binary is built without the Metalink support. Metalink support needed!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

curl --version
curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.53.1 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.8.0
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz unix-sockets


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create metalink file /dist/cmake.metalink with content like attached cmake.metalink
2. Run command from the same directory where the cmake.metalink file created: curl --metalink file:///dist/cmake.metalink -s -o cmake-3.18.4-Linux-x86_64.sh

Actual results:
Metalink file is downloaded with warning:
Warning: --metalink option is ignored because the binary is built without the
Warning: Metalink support.


Expected results:
Expected to get downloaded file described inside the cmake.metalink - cmake-3.18.4-Linux-x86_64.sh in a given sample

Additional info:
uname -smor
Linux 3.10.0-1160.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

There are libs available to be used to build the curl binaries with Metalink support:
(EPEL Release repo enabled):
libmetalink.x86_64 : Metalink library written in C
libmetalink-devel.x86_64 : Files needed for developing with libmetalink
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2020-11-23 11:55:31 UTC 
We do not introduce new features in RHEL-7 curl any more.  The feature is available in RHEL-8 though.  Closing NEXTRELEASE.
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