Bug 69373 – bad mirroring of MAC OS X .dmg installer

• Product: Websites
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description sorin_paliga 2004-10-29 01:41:40 UTC]

Earlier today I found, cannot remember by what means, presumably randomly clicking on gentoo.org site, and found a some 28 MB .dmg file for MAC OS X+X11. Now at the faculty, and before classes, I could not identify the location of that download. I firmly suggest you to improve search on your site. Practically this link is NOT under ppc pages; and the various mirrors of you otherwise WONDERFUL distro are empty there!
This is not a bug regarding the distro, but referring to better organising your site. Indeed, it would be very useful to make us rapidly identify the location we need.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to identify where the MAC OS X .dmg installer is located upon opening www.gentoo.org
2. Click on the mirrors reflecting ppc/macosx; most of them (all?) are empty
3.
Actual Results:  
Smoked several cigarettes, which I do not recommend you, of course

Expected Results:  
www.gentoo.org should have a rapid search engine

[Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 15:25:29 UTC]

feature req on the website

[Comment 2 Nick Dimiduk (RETIRED) 2005-01-23 09:10:55 UTC]

Once we start to follow the same release schedule as Gentoo proper (and I don't see a reason why we wouldn't), there should be a {gentoo-mirror}/Releases/ppc-macos directory structure.  Is there any reason not to start this /before/ we move to a regular release pattern?  We're technically still in a greek-alphabet pre-release state.

Suggestions?

[Comment 3 Nick Dimiduk (RETIRED) 2005-04-27 11:04:28 UTC]

No action has been taken on this that I am aware of.  The most up-to-date installer can be found linked to from http://metadistribution.org/macos/.  I'm marking this as LATER because I believe the issues of standard mirroring and "official" web-site links will be resolved once we release.

The above link can be found when reading the portage/macos installation documentation.