On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Calvin Morrison <
mutantturkey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 20 December 2011 18:08, Timothy Pearson <
kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> > On 20 December 2011 16:58, Timothy Pearson
>> > <
kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>wrote:
>> >
>> >> > 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 :)
>> >
>>
>> 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
>
>
> Of course but after Arch Linux switched to xz I was mightily impressed. I
> wonder what policies exist.