Hello Justin,

and welcome to the team.

Thanks for your submission. Indeed we have not been touching update accelerator
much in the last years. Some people have been working on forks but never
submitted their changes and just uploaded them somewhere. Therefore I am happy
that you had a look.

On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 17:12 +0300, Justin Luth wrote:
> Updatexlrator stores its files in a hash of the URL.
> 
> The download utility mangles the URL for [+/~], but
> the updxlrator only does it for [/]. Thus, download
> stores the result as one hash, and updxlrator looks for it
> with a different hash. The result is that the file is
> re-downloaded every time by both the client, and updxlrator.

Wouldn't it be a better idea to generally escape/unescape the URLs? There is a
perl module that does that:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI/lib/URI/Escape.pm

Your changes certainly make sense, but there are more characters that could
cause the same problem here.

Let me know if that would make sense, too.

Best,
-Michael

> This is fixed by making updxlrator mangle the url in the
> same way as the downloader. apt-get install g++ would
> be a good test for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Luth  <jluth(a)mail.com>
> 
> ---
> I submitted the bug report and attached this patch three years
> ago, but the maintainer of updxlrator - although he
> incorporated it into his own ipcop packagea - has never
> released it (for ipcop) or any of the other promised updates that
> he has been working on (in ipfire).
> 
> I have a few more fixes for updxlrator that I want to submit,
> if this process goes well.
> ---
>   config/updxlrator/updxlrator | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/config/updxlrator/updxlrator b/config/updxlrator/updxlrator
> index 2ddc6d8e4..b728902f6 100644
> --- a/config/updxlrator/updxlrator
> +++ b/config/updxlrator/updxlrator
> @@ -345,7 +345,9 @@ sub check_cache
>       my $sourceurl=$_[0];
>       my $cfmirror=$_[4];
> 
> +    $sourceurl =~ s@\%2b(a)+@ig;
>       $sourceurl =~ s@\%2f@/@ig;
> +    $sourceurl =~ s@\%7e@~@ig;
>       $updfile = substr($sourceurl,rindex($sourceurl,"/")+1);
>       $updfile =~ s@\%20@ @ig;
>