Upgrading to exiftool-12.68 Fails in Gentoo

[themetman]

Upgradiong or installing  exiftool-12.68 fails because the file to download is missing form exiftool.org site.
I get this error even using this command:

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wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.68.tar.gz

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Resolving exiftool.org... 69.163.182.10
Connecting to exiftool.org|69.163.182.10|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-02-08 11:10:22 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Please can you fix this.

[Phil Harvey]

Can you upgrade to 12.76 instead?  Gentoo should be reading https://exiftool.org/ver.txt to get the current version number and downloading that instead of some older version.  Or the checksums file to get the names and checksums for all of the latest packages.

- Phil

[themetman]

The version you suggest is masked in Gentoo, but unmasking gives the same error as does wget:

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wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.72.tar.gz

--2024-02-08 12:48:25--  https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.72.tar.gz
Resolving exiftool.org... 69.163.182.10
Connecting to exiftool.org|69.163.182.10|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-02-08 12:48:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.


[greybeard]

The version you suggest is masked in Gentoo, but unmasking gives the same error as does wget:

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wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.72.tar.gz

--2024-02-08 12:48:25--  https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.72.tar.gz
Resolving exiftool.org... 69.163.182.10
Connecting to exiftool.org|69.163.182.10|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-02-08 12:48:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.


You tried to download 12.72 - version 12.76 is available (see Phil's post above)

[StarGeek]

Strange.  wget has a problem downloading the file without --no-check-certificate

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C:\>wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.76.tar.gz
--2024-02-08 08:36:23--  https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.76.tar.gz
Resolving exiftool.org (exiftool.org)... 69.163.182.10
Connecting to exiftool.org (exiftool.org)|69.163.182.10|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify exiftool.org's certificate, issued by 'CN=R3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to exiftool.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
cURL downloads without a problem.

[greybeard]

Strange.  wget has a problem downloading the file without --no-check-certificate

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C:\>wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.76.tar.gz
--2024-02-08 08:36:23--  https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.76.tar.gz
Resolving exiftool.org (exiftool.org)... 69.163.182.10
Connecting to exiftool.org (exiftool.org)|69.163.182.10|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify exiftool.org's certificate, issued by 'CN=R3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to exiftool.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
cURL downloads without a problem.

Maybe it's a Windows thing - I run this command regularly on my Raspberry pi to download the latest version of Exiftool

[StarGeek]

Bah, have three different versions of wget on my computer.  Version 1.16.3 has this problem and that appears to have highest priority in the PATH.  Version 1.21.4 works fine. Sorry for the off topic.

[themetman]

I have now discovered that Gentoo does not go as far as version 12.76, only 12.72.

I can download 12.76 using wget, but not 12.68 or 12.72
I will report this back to Gentoo
Many thanks for you input

[themetman]

For information, this is being fixed by the Gentoo Maintainers today.
See this in Gentoo bugs