Arch Linux User Repository

Based on the patch offered by Nitsuga, I have created a separate AUR package with the 2GB patch applied:

httpfs2-2gbplus

I think this original package should still exist due to that it equals upstream (which, sadly, has not been updated in 9 years). At least the new package gives users an easier choice.

There's a bug where files bigger than 2 GB don't work. I found a patch in the httpfs2 bugtracker that solves this.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 8c22cfd..2c74993 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
 # Contributor: Constantinko <helllamer@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Agustín Dall'Alba <a@dallalba.com.ar>

 pkgname=httpfs2
 pkgver=0.1.5
@@ -10,8 +11,15 @@ url='http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/'
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('fuse' 'openssl')
 makedepends=('asciidoc' 'dpkg')
-source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/httpfs/httpfs2/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('01cb4bb38deb344f540da6f1464dc7edbdeb51213ad810b8c9c282c1e17e0fc1')
+source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/httpfs/httpfs2/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        "https://sourceforge.net/p/httpfs/bugs/_discuss/thread/8a4f3458/b43f/attachment/httpfs.diff")
+sha256sums=('01cb4bb38deb344f540da6f1464dc7edbdeb51213ad810b8c9c282c1e17e0fc1'
+            'da1965ff43662ed1473699e94511d9ae1c493d071eee795cdb5ff22fabeebc56')
+
+prepare() {
+       cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+       patch -p1 -i ../httpfs.diff
+}

 build() {
        cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}

Builds for me.

I had to install perl-date-parse, though. I reported that as a missing dependency for dpkg.

==> Starting package()...
install: cannot stat ‘httpfs2.1’: No such file or directory

Please add dpkg to makedepends. dpkg-parsechangelog is necessary to build the package.