[Bug 50083] ASCOM Platform 6.5 - Installation failed

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50083

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                URL|                            |https://web.archive.org/202
                   |                            |10124131534/https://github.
                   |                            |com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPl
                   |                            |atform/releases/download/v6
                   |                            |.5SP1Release/ASCOMPlatform6
                   |                            |5SP1.exe
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
                 CC|                            |focht at gmx.net
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
           Keywords|                            |download, Installer
          Component|-unknown                    |advapi32

--- Comment #3 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

confirming on behalf of OP. There is a patch posted to wine-devel, mentioning
"ASCOM Platform installer":

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2021-January/179654.html

It doesn't reference this bug id explicitly though.

---

Generate notes on creating backups/snapshots since you posted download links to
github in your comment #0 ...

When creating a ticket I recommend that you immediately create a snapshot of
the artifact using Internet Archive (archive.org).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/

Github is not a "safe backup" when comes to binary release assets. Various
Github projects purge their assets after new releases - even if they are hosted
on AWS CDN. This makes it hard to retest / reproduce bugs any time.

Example of ASCOM Platform 6.5 release from your comment #0:

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/tag/v6.5Release

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/download/v6.5Release/ASCOMPlatform65.exe
= broken download link

Binary release assets are gone, source code tarball is still there in project
assets.

Latest release ASCOM Platform 6.5 - Service Pack 1:

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/tag/v6.5SP1Release

Binary release assets are hosted on AWS CDN, source code tarballs in project
assets.

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/download/v6.5SP1Release/ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe
(valid as of today, 20210124)

---

There is the possibility to archive things using Github mechanics but that's on
the project owner/developer responsibility. Never rely on that - even if
archived assets exist in the project - they can be still purged as well.

I've created a snapshot via Internet Archive here:

https://web.archive.org/20210124131534/https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/download/v6.5SP1Release/ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe

Note, when you encounter AWS or similar CDN's that encode a lot of parameters
in the final URL, there is a trick to construct a "sane" URL after the snapshot
has been created:

https://web.archive.org/<datetimestamp>/<original-url>

Replace '<datetimestamp>' from the snapshot date.

When visiting the link for download you will briefly see:

--- snip ---
Loading...

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases/download/v6.5SP1Release/ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe
|
        13:14:35 January 24, 2021

Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Redirecting to...

https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/131588847/60766880-4513-11eb-8af6-cc8cb802c466?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20210124%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210124T131436Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=347399859389f88ddb8fa1a7b050cea86e460946cddb02d610b2a60d43e0c6fe&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=131588847&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
--- snip ---

It will still resolve to the original artifact.

Above information is generic and probably belongs to a Wiki but well ;-)

$ sha1sum ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe 
7b0d5f8f8cdda70c9fc3da93283451f34ec3b94d  ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe

$ du -sh ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe 
59M    ASCOMPlatform65SP1.exe

$ wine --version
wine-6.0

Regards

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