> 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.
>
> 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
>