Bug 494856

Summary:	profile/thirdpartymirrors - obsolete/dead mirrors in nongnu mirror group
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben Kohler <bkohler>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	494672
Attachments:	nongnu-mirror-cleanup.patch

Description Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-12-20 16:33:59 UTC

Hello,

11 of 25 mirrors in the 'nongnu' mirror group in profiles/thirdpartymirrors file are no longer valid mirrors.  These were checked as part of an analysis of all third party mirror lists.  The dead mirrors should probably be removed, and there may be a more up to date mirror list upstream that can be used.  Here is a status of all 'nongnu' mirrors:

good: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases-noredirect/
good: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/nongnu.org/
good: http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/NonGNU/
bad:  http://mirror.cinquix.com/pub/savannah/
bad:  ftp://mirror.cinquix.com/pub/savannah/
good: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/nongnu/
good: ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/nongnu/
good: http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/nongnu/
good: ftp://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/nongnu/
bad:  http://mirrors.igsobe.com/nongnu/
bad:  ftp://mirrors.igsobe.com/nongnu/
bad:  http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/
bad:  ftp://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/savannah/
bad:  http://mirrors.openfountain.cl/savannah/
good: http://mirrors.zerg.biz/nongnu/
good: http://nongnu.askapache.com/
bad:  http://nongnu.mirror.ironie.org/releases/
bad:  ftp://ftp.ironie.org/savannah.nongnu.org/releases/
good: http://nongnu.uib.no/
good: ftp://nongnu.uib.no/pub/nongnu/
good: http://savannah.c3sl.ufpr.br/
good: ftp://savannah.c3sl.ufpr.br/savannah-nongnu/
bad:  http://www.very-clever.com/download/nongnu/
good: ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/NonGNU/
bad:  http://mirrors.aixtools.net/sv/

Thanks!

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2014-01-06 20:15:32 UTC

Created attachment 367218 [details, diff]
nongnu-mirror-cleanup.patch

Upstream's mirror list is here:

http://download-mirror.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.txt

I've tested this list and it's mostly good but the following mirrors fail:

http://mirrors.openfountain.cl/savannah/
http://mirror.veriportal.com/savannah/
ftp://spinellicreations.com/gnu_dot_org_savannah_mirror/
ftp://mirror.yongbok.net/nongnu/
http://mirror.yongbok.net/nongnu/

Attached is a patch which replaces the old mirror list with a new one, based on upstream's list but with the above bad mirrors removed.

Comment 2 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-30 10:34:52 UTC

+  30 Jan 2015; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> thirdpartymirrors:
+  Drop dead mirrors from nongnu mirror list, wrt bug #494856