On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 06:58:20PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: ... > 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.
Sounds exciting. > 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. To tell the truth, I've never used uscan; I'll take a look. > > 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. Let Savannah see. > > > 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. This was quite easy; what isn't easy is toe make the note at the bottom of download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/<group>/ visible. > > > 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. Perhaps we could mention the mirmon page in that invisible note.
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