On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Anon Y Mous<[email protected]> wrote: >> What is? This message makes no sense on the mail list. > > Ian, I take it that you only use Solaris 10 and Solaris Express and don't > ever use Indiana, ipkg zones or IPS package management? The main OpenSolaris > IPS repository has been going down repeatedly for over two days now. Some > people who have been running OpenSolaris on their servers have not been able > to deploy a new ipkg zone in over 48 hours and all their work has been forced > to grind to a halt. > > Nobody who works at Sun has said anything about what might be causing the > problem. All the people who use ipkg zones on OpenSolaris are basically now > S.O.L. because every time they try to deploy a new ipkg zone, the new ipkg > zone automatically tries to download packages from the Sun repository and the > download times out because the IPS repository is down and consequently the > zone won't deploy. > > There are already three or four threads about this in the "help" list at > opensolaris.org (see link below): > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=107149&tstart=0 > > but nobody is responding to the cries for help (just dead air time and > crickets chirping). So we tried moving the thread to the discuss list in the > hope that someone knowledgeable would see the multiple pleas for help and > respond.
Yesterday I received a reply from Shawn Walker. Not terribly informative, but at least it seems as though it is being worked. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-July/014927.html A while later, there was a putback to the pkg source code repository that looks like it may be related. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-July/014937.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
