pkg/59005: pkgsrc package cad/eagle original distribution site is gone

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>Number:         59005
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkgsrc package cad/eagle original distribution site is gone
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 18 19:15:00 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Alexander Schreiber
>Release:        pkgsrc-2024Q3
>Organization:
Not Much
>Environment:
NetBSD 10.1 amd64 - this is not a platform issue
>Description:
"make fetch" for pkgsrc package cad/eagle fails because:
 - it first synthesizes an invalid hostname:
    ftp: Can't LOOKUP `web.cadsoft.de:http': No address associated with hostname
 - when using the correct URL http://web.cadsoft.de/ftp/eagle/program/7.7/eagle-lin32-7.7.0.run
   it turns out that web.cadsoft.de does not resolve
 - whatever cadsoft.de _used_ to be (presumably a CAD software company), the website now
   presents as a suspicious looking "financial portal" platform (maybe real, maybe scam,
   didn't dig to find out) - CadSoft apparently was acquired by AutoDesk in 2016
 - grabbing it from cdn.netbsd.org fails because the source package is not redistributable, so the
   CDN is not supposed to cache it

Looking for the filename finds a download at Autodesk, which acquired CadSoft in 2016 where
it is offered as "Audodesk Eagle" which seems to have been developed until 2020:

http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/software-versions/

The Eagle 7.7 32bit Linux version is here: http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/software-versions/1
under the URL http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/download-software/3  - which is ... not great,
but it appears to be the shell executable installer pkgsrc is looking for.

The 7.7 version is offered as both a 32 and a 64 bit binary, later versions unsurprisingly
are 64 bit only.


Setting severity to low since this must have been broken for years already and nobody
was interested enough to fix it. I only found it because I'm currently trying to do
a "make fetch all" equivalent on pkgsrc distfiles for 2024Q3 ;-)


>How-To-Repeat:
cd $PKGSRCDIR ; cd cad/eagle ; make fetch
>Fix:
I see two approaches:
 1: update the package to (preferred) grab the latest version and tag it as amd64 only
 2: delete the package (more likely, to be honest)

The annoying URL format also sure doesn't help, but I assume that can be dealt with, if
necessary.