Problem 2535

Summary: Geant4 < 10.4 broken with missing data due to website change
Product: Geant4 Reporter: Laurie Nevay <laurie.nevay>
Component: cmakeAssignee: Ben Morgan <Ben.Morgan>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: Dmitri.Konstantinov, gdiazlop, will_thompson
Priority: P4    
Version: 10.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Laurie Nevay 2023-04-09 20:45:29 CEST 
Since the big website revamp, it should be noted that versions of Geant4 prior to 10.4 cannot reach the data to download so you can't compile them with data or use them.  For example, they look for it here:

https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/source/G4NEUTRONXS.1.4.tar.gz

but more modern versions look here:

https://cern.ch/geant4-data/datasets/G4NDL.4.5.tar.gz

I only found out as I have a docker image for 10.1 -> latest for testing BDSIM as we technically support them. Practically, 10.4.p04 is the oldest we use as it has the last point where proton diffraction still works.  Thankfully, 10.4 works.  

Just so you're aware.

Cheers,
Laurie

PS didn't find a good category for this, so thought cmake was the best.
Comment 1 Ben Morgan 2023-04-10 15:09:12 CEST 
This will require a bit of finessing of redirects on the new website, so may take a little while to implement.
Comment 2 Gonzalo 2023-04-12 10:06:20 CEST 
*** Problem 2536 has been marked as a duplicate of this problem. ***
Comment 3 Gabriele Cosmo 2023-04-17 16:46:35 CEST 
*** Problem 2537 has been marked as a duplicate of this problem. ***
Comment 4 Dmitri Konstantinov 2023-04-21 15:41:18 CEST 
It is fixed by Ben.
Comment 5 Ben Morgan 2023-04-21 18:57:48 CEST 
This is now handled through redirects, and so should work right back to 10.0 (the earliest I've tested).