20 Dec
2011
20 Dec
'11
11:46 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 December 2011 18:08, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>
wrote:
Of course but after Arch Linux switched to xz I was mightily impressed. I
wonder what policies exist.
I'm still trying to understand Arch's packaging system so I might have
misinterpreted your comment.
Are you thinking that you could make different PKGBUILD files for the
different distros and use the same source code for all distros.
Since PKGBUILDs are scripts you should even be able to add scripts
that alter the source code as needed for specific distros prior to
building.
Keith
On 20 December 2011 16:58, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net>wrote;wrote:
Not trivial I'm afraid. The majority of the mirror archive is consumed in
binary packages, which must be compressed according to each distribution's
policies.
Tim > FYI the TDE mirror system is down due to
permanent uidaho mirror
server
> failure and secondary mirror server misconfiguration.
>
> Details here: http://trinity-announce.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::16
>
> I am working to resolve this issue, however given the limited upload
> bandwidth of the TDE servers and lack of donations it may be several
weeks
> before service is 100% restored.
>
> Note that all non-mirrored TDE services, such as the website, mailing
> lists, GIT, Wiki, and bugtracker will all continue to function
normally.
> This failure affects mirrored source tarballs and binary packages
ONLY.
>
> Tim
To make matters worse the secondary mirror at mirror.tokra.lv was taken
offline some time ago without my knowledge. The maintainer of that
mirror
silently redirected all access to uidaho, so my automated checks did
not
detect a problem until today. That mirror maintainer does not want to
reactivate his mirror, so the TDE binary/source archive mirror system
will
stay down until new mirrors can be brought up from scratch.
I am looking into a number of the suggestions given in this thread. I
also have received mirror offers from several individuals, which are
greatly appreciated! At this point it looks like any delay will be due
to
the limited TDE project bandwidth combined with the sheer size of the
TDE
source/binary archive.
Further updates will be forthcoming as events warrant. Thank you all
for
your patience!
Tim
Even more reason to switch to xz packages :)