High again,
I remember mirror servers being a topic multiple times recently, but iirc, that was about system specific repositories.
Now I'm trying to download 14.0.2 to compile it myself, and I have (been) navigated to http://ftp.fau.de/trinity/releases/R14.0.2/downloads.html
In the second-last line it says:
The high speed file mirror currently in use was selected at random. All mirror information is available on the main Trinity project page at https://www.trinitydesktop.org.
I don't find any mirror info there... not even the word "mirror". I also searched the wiki, with an astonishing little number of hits, one related to GIT ("check out the entire source tree from mirror"), another to "Building KDE 3.5 with Konstruct", which appears to be quite obsolete, despite it's more or less recent timestamp from 2014-05-07, and the last one about "ULab NIUInstallNotes", where I guess that it's not about the source tarballs.
I also looked through other pages, without finding any hint about mirrors, so my question: there seems to be a list of mirrors maintained, but it doesn't seem to be visible to the end users, only to scripts, on which the user has to rely?
I'm asking, because connections to the mirror at fau.de are not particularly stable from my home net. Using "wget -c", mileages vary, but the per-session volume is below 200kB, which makes it tiresome to download a 200MB archive.
Also, the mirror can't be choosen so randomly, since I _always_ end up at fau.de.
Any links? Thanks in advance, Jagged
PS: anyone having the R14.0.2-core.tar on their box, could you please run "tar tf" on it and send the output? --- thanks again.
Okay, found it finally... on http://trinitydesktop.org/contributors.php,
The Team's page... who wouldn't expect it there?
...also linking further to http://trinitydesktop.org/mirrorstatus.php. (Just in case anybody else would look for that.)
Anyway, thanks and best regards, Jagged
On Sunday 06 of December 2015 07:03:14 Jagged O'Neill wrote:
High again,
I remember mirror servers being a topic multiple times recently, but iirc, that was about system specific repositories.
Now I'm trying to download 14.0.2 to compile it myself, and I have (been) navigated to http://ftp.fau.de/trinity/releases/R14.0.2/downloads.html
In the second-last line it says:
The high speed file mirror currently in use was selected at random. All mirror information is available on the main Trinity project page at https://www.trinitydesktop.org.
I don't find any mirror info there... not even the word "mirror". I also searched the wiki, with an astonishing little number of hits, one related to GIT ("check out the entire source tree from mirror"), another to "Building KDE 3.5 with Konstruct", which appears to be quite obsolete, despite it's more or less recent timestamp from 2014-05-07, and the last one about "ULab NIUInstallNotes", where I guess that it's not about the source tarballs.
I also looked through other pages, without finding any hint about mirrors, so my question: there seems to be a list of mirrors maintained, but it doesn't seem to be visible to the end users, only to scripts, on which the user has to rely?
I'm asking, because connections to the mirror at fau.de are not particularly stable from my home net. Using "wget -c", mileages vary, but the per-session volume is below 200kB, which makes it tiresome to download a 200MB archive.
Also, the mirror can't be choosen so randomly, since I _always_ end up at fau.de.
Any links? Thanks in advance, Jagged
PS: anyone having the R14.0.2-core.tar on their box, could you please run "tar tf" on it and send the output? --- thanks again.
Since the introduction new mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org this server uses the redirector based on the Debian's redirector. Selecting the mirror now not random, but primarily based on GeoIP location.
I noticed, page mirrorstatus you have already found. For information redirector on mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org uses precisely this information as a main list of active mirrors.
Yes, that's right - tde-construct is outdated and unmaintained. It is not suitable for use. To create packages for various distributions files are to found in the tde-packaging GIT repository.
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On 2015/12/06 07:27 PM, Slávek Banko wrote:
Yes, that's right - tde-construct is outdated and unmaintained. It is not suitable for use. To create packages for various distributions files are to found in the tde-packaging GIT repository
Not to mention that tde-construct has been removed from the main trunk, if my memory is good enough ;-) Cheers Michele
On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Slávek Banko wrote:
Yes, that's right - tde-construct is outdated and unmaintained. It is not suitable for use. To create packages for various distributions files are to found in the tde-packaging GIT repository.
That's certainly a hint, but a problem with GITs is usually that you find what you want/need only if you the GIT already. They're not overly verbose, and looking at its front page, it's hard to find information what else is in the branch called "master", when the only comment about it is the latest commit message.
You who are always working with and on the GIT, will probably know what is what --- I don't.
A more speaking example: the r14.0.x branch... what is it supposed to cover? 14.0.1 and 14.0.2? And where has the deprecated dependency been removed? All (sub)versions or the latest?
Don't misunderstand, I don't expect answers to these questions, as this is not my current concern; I'm just saying, it's not easy to find what I need.
Same with the tags section: what are these *.zip and *.tar.gz files about? Are those the whole sources? Or just utility scripts? Or maybe even meta data used for packaging? GIT is noncomittal in this respect, too, in that it doesn't tell the file sizes, so I could try my talent for educated guesses ;-)
wget -S only tells me "Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]", so no help via classic http, too. And I don't currently have the bandwidth to simply download everything (my *core.tar download, which is stable from the sweden mirror, is still at 45% after 5h ;-).
Also the "tree" tab doesn't reveal much to me. My actual target, slackware, is empty except a .gitignore file, but also looking at others, like suse, I continue lacking any idea about what the files might be for (I've seen a lot of *.diff files, but diffs for what?) (Again: purely rhetorical questions)
Some more info in pure HTML format would be appreciated, and I guess not only from my side, but that's not the actual point of this post.
Anyway, I'll try to find my way in the hope that the ambiguities regarding the build methods (which were those? iirc, cmake and autoconf? --- Well, I'll see) have been removed meanwhile.
Best regards, and still thanks ;-) Jagged
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 07:03:14 +0100 Jagged O'Neill jagged_4tr@jagged.tk wrote:
I don't find any mirror info there... not even the word "mirror". I also searched the wiki, with an astonishing little number of hits, one related to GIT ("check out the entire source tree from mirror"), another to "Building KDE 3.5 with Konstruct", which appears to be quite obsolete, despite it's more or less recent timestamp from 2014-05-07, and the last one about "ULab NIUInstallNotes", where I guess that it's not about the source tarballs.
The Konstruct page was part of a mass-port of KDE3 documentation from the KDE wiki, so that it wouldn't be lost if they finally decided to purge it. Much of it still has value (design and specification information about the original code), but I believe that page was obsolete when I copied it in. I think there had been some interest at one time in reviving Konstruct, which was why I included it.
So that's why the timestamp is relatively recent (and why it's clearly marked as "KDE 3.5" and not "TDE").
E. Liddell
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