Ineiev wrote: > Hello, Yavor; Hi, Pasha! It's great talking to you again after all these years. I use the opportunity to thank you wholeheartedly for the *brilliant* job you've been doing for our common projects during my (unsigned long long) absence. The square world of GNUstep sucked me in and there's no way out, it seems. I plan to return and will return (hopefully soon) as your assistant.
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 10:13:32PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > I'm having constant problems with the Greek mirror > > fosszone.csd.auth.gr > I can't reproduce this, so I'm not sure what to do about it yet. I guess it is only reproducible from my location and my ISP, or a certain set of combinations of location + ISP. JFTR, there are no problems from another machine in my city but connected to the Internet via a different ISP. I am still having the same problem on my main workstation as I type this message. I suppose you should do nothing becase there's nothing to do. I'm not sure if it helps analyzing the problem, but I find it interesting that "uscan --report-status" succeeds (this option checks the latest version on the server so there is an actual connection) while downloading the file fails. > Perhaps we could change the redirection logic to select from a set > of at least N mirrors so that no user would be always directed to > the same mirror, even if the "nearest" country has only one mirror. I don't know the redirection logic but it sounds like this would help. > > 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. > > You can use download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/. I didn't know this; thanks. > > 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. > > One can get a list of mirrors with their status on the mirmon page, > download.savannah.gnu.org/mirmon/savannah/. Oh, sorry for being so stupid... I even visited this URL before composing my initial message. Got it from the Hungarian mirror. Consider the issue closed; there are easy workarounds like using another mirror or the "noredirect" URL.
