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

[4tro]

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.

[4tro (finke-lamein)]

update:

I just assumed we didn't have wget on the system and it would use curl.
But actually, it uses wget, and it still fails.

Not sure why it fails now, but the point about the updated version doing it totally different still stands.

[James Page (james-page)]

Confirmed; if you uninstall wget, the script still tries to use wget (the checks for executables are not quoted so always pass).

If you fix that, then the curl call needs "-sL" to behave like wget does...

[James Page (james-page)]

This impacts on current development as well.

[James Page (james-page)]

I have an update prepared for ubuntu development once it opens; I'm not proposing to SRU this as ubuntu-standard depends on wget, so all Ubuntu installs should have access to wget.

[James Page (james-page)]

(I was not able to reproduce the problem using wget).

[James Page (james-page)]

I can't upload to Ubuntu just yet, but I've also submitted my proposed fix back to Debian so that might be where the fix actually happens.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ieee-data - 20160613.1ubuntu1

---------------
ieee-data (20160613.1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Misc fixes to update-ieee-data (LP: #1694922):
    - Quote checks for download executables to ensure that they are
      correctly detected.
    - Use "curl -sL" if selected to ensure that redirects are
      followed.

 -- James Page <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:08:03 +0000

[Joi Owen (jlellis)]

Is there any plan to backport this fix to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

[Terry Schulte (kalanvryce)]

Here is the fix for 16.04 LTS: (Well it's how I fixed it anyhow...)

1. Edit the script /usr/bin/update-oui

2. Change the URLs to the correct ones listed here:

ouiurl="http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui.txt"
oui28url="http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.txt"
oui36url="http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.txt"
iaburl="http://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.txt"

3. Profit!!!