rpm5.org appears to have gone away. Launchpad has 1.15: https://launchpad.net/popt/+milestone/1.15 and BLFS has 1.16: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/popt.html The broken rpm5 URL affects the build from master if you use any package that depends on it: oprofile, logrotate, rpm, librsync
Here is a patch to use launchpad instead of rpm5.org. I picked launchpad only because its Ubuntu oriented and that seems to have an active support community.
Created attachment 3241 [details] Switch download URL to launchpad for popt
normally a missing / down upstream doesn't matter much, as buildroot then falls back to sources.buildroot.net, which DOES have popt-1.15.tar.gz. Isn't that working for you? E.G.: >>> popt 1.15 Downloading --2011-04-24 08:19:48-- http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.15.tar.gz Resolving rpm5.org... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address “rpm5.org” --2011-04-24 08:19:49-- http://sources.buildroot.net//popt-1.15.tar.gz Resolving sources.buildroot.net... 88.198.64.109 Connecting to sources.buildroot.net|88.198.64.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 666242 (651K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: “/var/lib/downloads/popt-1.15.tar.gz” 100%[======================================>] 666,242 1.36M/s in 0.5s
Ugh. This is my own fault. I've been using OpenDNS for some time and now their redirection to "search results" on failed lookups has bitten me. I switched my DNS server to Google Public DNS and sure enough after the failure the backup download from Buildroot's archives worked. FWIW, with OpenDNS the search results gets downloaded as a file and Buildroot attempts to unpack it. Not sure you can do anything to mediate this response from a download attempt within Buildroot. So this is a non-bug. Apologies for not investigating better.
It would still be interesting to have a working upstream location. I've bumped it to 1.16 in git using the linuxfromscratch mirror.