On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote: > > > On 20 December 2011 18:08, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> > wrote: >> >> > On 20 December 2011 16:58, Timothy Pearson >> > <kb9vqf@...>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