[0.16] depends: Switch to downloading expat from GitHub #12585

1. 
   fanquake commented at 4:04 am on March 3, 2018: member

   @droark mentioned the expat download was failing when trying to gitian build 0.16. I tried locally and also saw issues:

    0make download
    1Checksum missing or mismatched for expat source. Forcing re-download.
    2Fetching expat-2.2.1.tar.bz2 from https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.2.1
    3  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
    4                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
    5  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
    6100   652  100   652    0     0    361      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
    7/Users/xxx/Github/bitcoin/depends/work/download/expat-2.2.1/expat-2.2.1.tar.bz2.temp: FAILED
    8shasum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
    9Fetching expat-2.2.1.tar.bz2 from https://bitcoincore.org/depends-sources
   10  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
   11                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
   12  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
   13curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
   14make[1]: *** [/Users/xxx/Github/bitcoin/depends/sources/download-stamps/.stamp_fetched-expat-expat-2.2.1.tar.bz2.hash] Error 22
   15make: *** [download-linux] Error 2
   

   This switches to downloading from GitHub, as we are doing in master.

2. depends: Switch expat download to GitHub 25afebc2ba
3. fanquake added the label Build system on Mar 3, 2018
4. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.16.1 on Mar 3, 2018
5. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 3:44 pm on March 3, 2018: member

   utACK 25afebc2ba41a581f3b4689cf6f50d1073c3f94d
6. 
   droark commented at 11:22 pm on March 4, 2018: contributor

   utACK

   Am busy right now but will try to convert this to a tACK in the next couple of days.

7. 
   practicalswift commented at 9:39 am on March 5, 2018: contributor

   utACK 25afebc2ba41a581f3b4689cf6f50d1073c3f94d
8. MarcoFalke merged this on Mar 5, 2018
9. MarcoFalke closed this on Mar 5, 2018

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10. MarcoFalke referenced this in commit 72a3290c90 on Mar 5, 2018
11. fanquake deleted the branch on Apr 12, 2018
12. MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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