On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Gavin Simpson wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 02:30 -0400, David Kane wrote:
How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/
It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database: "
late to chime in, so had tossed the first piece. As this
relates to 'reliability of R-Forge' in the sense of possible
process issues, rather than availability of the archive, I
wanted to 'tag into' this thread
I 'mirror' r-forge, so I have not seen this ...
One thing I note, mirroring r-forge, and processing 'diffs'
netween successive days, is that the md5sums of some packages
regularly change without version number bumps. From this
morning's report in my email:
Thu Aug 26 04:30:01 EDT 2010
--- /tmp/rforge-pre.txt 2010-08-26 04:30:33.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/rforge-post.txt 2010-08-26 04:38:03.000000000
-0400
@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@
AquaEnv_1.0-1.tar.gz 615059a5369d1aba149e6142fedffdde
ArvoRe_0.1.6.tar.gz c955ae7c64c4270740172ad2219060ff
BB_2010.7-1.tar.gz 4f85093ab24fac5c0b91539ec6efb8b7
-BCE_2.0.tar.gz 5a3fe3ecabbe2b2e278f6a48fc19d18d
-BIOMOD_1.1-5.tar.gz d2f74f21bc8858844f8d71627fd8e687
+BCE_2.0.tar.gz 65a968c586e729a1c1ca34a37f5c293a
+BIOMOD_1.1-5.tar.gz 6929e5ad6a14709de7065286ec684942
...
-BTSPAS_2010.08.tar.gz 16b8f265846a512c329f0b52ba1924ab
+BTSPAS_2010.08.tar.gz 809a96b11f1094e95b217af113abd0ac
...
-BayesR_0.1-1.tar.gz 72bd41c90845032eb9d15c4c6d086dec
+BayesFactorPCL_0.5.tar.gz 173ab741c399309314eff240a4c3cd6f
+BayesR_0.1-1.tar.gz 9560b511f1b955a60529599672d58fea
...
-BiplotGUI_0.0-6.tar.gz 594b3a275cde018eaa74e1ef974dd522
+BiplotGUI_0.0-6.tar.gz 857a484fdba6cb97be4e42e38bb6d0fd
...
-IsoGene_1.0-18.tar.gz 679a5aecb7182474ed6a870fa52ca2e3
+IsoGene_1.0-18.tar.gz f37572957b2a9846a8d738ec88ac8690
and so forth. I've not taken the trime to understand why
seemingly new versions are appearing without version bumps
yet.
Is anyone aware of explanations, other than a release process
that does not require unique versioning of differing content?
[it seems pretty basic to me that a 'receiver' of new content
could do the checks I do, and decline to push conflicting
md5sums over an identically named prior candidate in archive]
-- Russ herrold
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