| Summary: | eix-remote update fails: gentooexperimental.org down | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | denysonique <dennisonic> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Martin Väth <martin> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bearcatsandor, darkside, imran, navid.zamani, patrick, ps, SebastianLuther, urcindalo |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | Script to create eix-caches.tbz | ||
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Description
denysonique
2010-07-23 11:06:30 UTC
Yup, the *.gentooexperimental.org domains went away. The owner of the domain (patrick) is on vacation, I don't expect this to get fixed very soon. (In reply to comment #1) > Yup, the *.gentooexperimental.org domains went away. The owner of the domain > (patrick) is on vacation, I don't expect this to get fixed very soon. > Does anyone have a script that generates the cache? It would be nice if we could set up a temporary server or a second mirror. I think I could host it. Until bonsaikitten returns from his holidays. Created attachment 239931 [details]
Script to create eix-caches.tbz
The attached script is essentially untested, but should create
eix-caches.tbz2 in the required format.
It needs to be started in an empty directory in which eix-caches.tbz2
(and some temporary files) will be stored. The paths need to be adjusted,
of course.
Note that the script syncs all layman overlays, so you should have a lot of
bandwidth and diskspace if you use this script...
It is important to note that we don't want this script being ran by "everyone, all the time" doing so will hurt the perfomance of overlays.gentoo.org (where most of the overlays are hosted, but not all) Thanks Martin for the script. I am going to set up this as a daily cron job on my server. That will be on Monday. (In reply to comment #4) > It is important to note that we don't want this script being ran by > "everyone, all the time" Sorry if my posting of the script gave the wrong impression that it might be useful for somebody if he runs this script: This is not the case. (It would be rather stupid and unnecessary to fetch all overlays only to find the content of the overlays.) In fact, running this script makes only sense for _one_ person, namely for that person who serves the output file for the whole gentoo community, i.e. under normal circumstances (if gentooexperimental.org is up) this script does not make sense for anybody... Also now it makes only sense for Dennis and if he publicly announces the server (once it is set up) e.g. in the forums so that users can use his server temporarily until gentooexperimental.org is up again. Even if Dennis runs this script and announces it to the community (with limited success). Is it a good thing? A more long term fix would be to run it on gentoo infrastructure which is more resiliant and most important, more secure. Anyway, I'm not a big eix-remote user so I don't have a strong opinion. (I normally use http://gpo.zugaina.org/ to search overlays.) The old eix-cache server is up and running and was never down. The only problem it has is the DNS records. This is what I have been told by Patric when chating with him on freenode. You can use the ip of the eix-cache server http://91.191.147.225/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2 for the -a switch value of eix-update. Or alternatively just add an appropriate entry to your /etc/hosts file. This is a temporary fix until the domain will be working again. Yes, I agree that this should be hosted on the Gentoo mirrors, including checksums. But I disagree that it would be more secure, since we don’t have any trust network system here, and I don’t trust Gentoo admins any more than anybody else. People are just people. If you don’t personally know them, they are no better. (Usually they are even worse, as proven by politicians and Wikipedia admins all over the world.) You may know them, and you may trust them, because you interests match up. But everyone else can’t know that. :) hello, is patrick still alive? :) FIXED |
