Ben: This has been fixed for some time - all you have to do is "fink selfupdate-cvs". The URL is now ibiblio.org. Hopefully it is more stable, but how can you really know?
-Jeff On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > I tried to install imagemagick today from unstable, and when it got to > the point where it downloaded the fort77 source (why the heck does an > image processor need Fortran? *grumble*) it failed: > > The following package will be installed or updated: > imagemagick > The following 7 additional packages will be installed: > f2c fort77 freetype2 hdf hdf5 netcdf system-fortran > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > curl -L -O >ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/metalab/Linux/Linux/devel/lang/fortran/fort77-1.18.tar.gz > curl: (9) Couldn't cd to pub/mirrors/metalab/Linux/Linux/devel/lang/fortran > ### curl failed, exit code 9 > Downloading the file "fort77-1.18.tar.gz" failed. > > I FTP'd in by hand, and voila, mirrors via FTP from sourceforge > have been disabled (hooray for the New Economy!): > > ftp2:/pub> cd mirrors > > Due to increased traffic of our own downloads, Mirrors via FTP have been > Taken Offline from this server. You can still access them via HTTP @ > http://east.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/ > > Hm. Do we really think that pointing Fink source packages at places > this unstable is a good idea? > > Ben > > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
