On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Tom Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The RubyForge file downloads are more or less round-robined between the > various mirror servers... I say "more or less" because some server are > handed more requests than others. But all the mirrors should be serving all > files after the rsync'ing process has finished... > That doesn't appear to be the case. For example, this link is still valid: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz However, this one (manually edited to point to 1.3.1) is not: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz I can only download 1.3.1 if I use this different mirror (linked from the rubygems files page): http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz ...which means I had to update the URL in my scripts. Regardless, even if the 43985 mirror worked for 1.3.1, it still wouldn't be enough to make scripts stable because: 1. A currently-valid mirror could go offline in the future 2. There is still no generic url to grab the "latest" without hardcoding the version in the url - which means scripts must still be updated even if all mirrors worked and stayed around forever. Thanks, -- Chad
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