[Bug 1694922] Re: /etc/cron.monthly/ieee-data fails every month on redirected URLS

[James Page]

This impacts on current development as well.

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04

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Title:
  /etc/cron.monthly/ieee-data fails every month on redirected URLS

Status in ieee-data package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  the script fails and mails the following:

  run-parts: /etc/cron.monthly/ieee-data exited with return code 1

  the following URLS are giving a 302 redirect:
  - http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui28/mam.txt
  - http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui36/oui36.txt

  1) # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  2) # apt-cache policy ieee-data
  ieee-data:
    Installed: 20150531.1
    Candidate: 20150531.1
    Version table:
   *** 20150531.1 500
          500 http://apt.osso.nl/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://apt.osso.nl/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) it should have grabbed the right urls or it should follow the
  redirects by using `curl -L`, but in later ubuntu versions this script
  is completely overhauled, so a backport might be more appropriate.

  4) it fails with an exit code 1 and mails once for every server you
  have.

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