Hi Savannah hackers,
First of all, thanks for your tireless work.
I'm having constant problems with the Greek mirror
fosszone.csd.auth.gr (I live in Bulgaria and apparently the GeoIP
magic decides that's the one to use, although there are other mirrors
even over the Atlantic Ocean which have better connectivity):
$ uscan
Newest version of addresses-for-gnustep on remote site is 0.5.0, local version
is 0.4.8
=> Newer package available from:
=> https://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/gap/Addresses-0.5.0.tar.gz
uscan warn: In directory ., downloading
https://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/gap/Addresses-0.5.0.tar.gz failed: 500 Can't
connect to fosszone.csd.auth.gr:443 (Connection timed out)
uscan warn: No upstream tarball downloaded. No further processing with
mk_origtargz ...
And sometimes:
https://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/gap/Addresses-0.5.0.tar.gz failed: 502 Bad
Gateway
That's for large periods of the day, almost every day, and it's a
problem I'm experiencing for many months already.
At the time of writing, the mirmon stats page marks this mirror as
"renewed" which is, if I'm not mistaken, an indication of an earlier
error. It seems to me that it's not possible to avoid the
multiplexor; direct downloads were possible once upon a time with
/releases-noredirect/<project>/<file> but that gives 404 now.
P.S. I wanted to download the tarball from another mirror but
https://fosszone.csd.auth.gr/nongnu/00_MIRRORS.html is not
accessible. Perhaps it is a good idea to move the mirror list
out of the multiplexor's "mighty" hands.
