Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: I don't think our list of gnome mirrors has been updated for quite a while. Maybe this is the cause? One of the causes. The other one is that they like to move things around inside the mirrors. The mirror list is not so easy to update either, because their own mirror lis

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-17 Thread David R. Morrison
> I wanted to make just one remark: All the gnome packages have the > problem that the gnome mirrors are notoriously and inherently > unreliable. Quite frequently, the first couple of mirrors give you a > selection of error messages, but the third or fifth or tenth mirror is > working. This sit

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Gottfried Szing wrote: hi alex I forgot all about dryrun. This sounds like a great thing for somebody to run every so often and post the bad connections to the maintainers. wow, just fyi. the situation is not that bad. i have run a dryrun and tested most of the urls and there are about 90 o

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-16 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi alex I forgot all about dryrun. This sounds like a great thing for somebody to run every so often and post the bad connections to the maintainers. wow, just fyi. the situation is not that bad. i have run a dryrun and tested most of the urls and there are about 90 out of 3000 packages which

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
I forgot all about dryrun. This sounds like a great thing for somebody to run every so often and post the bad connections to the maintainers. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 13, 2004, at 7:46 PM, Gottfried Szing wrote: i have tried a differe

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi alex so, for me this is quite fine, because i believe to know what was happening and i solved the problem for me. for unexperienced user this could a reason to not to use fink any more, because it could be frustrating. sure, noone forces them to use unstable, but who is not using the latest

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Jan 13, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Gottfried Szing wrote: hi alex This isn't restricted to unstable--the stable tree has similar issues. The upstream sites who produce the sources change things around when new versions come out. What has been done is that Fink has "Master" mirrors set up, on which

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi alex This isn't restricted to unstable--the stable tree has similar issues. The upstream sites who produce the sources change things around when new versions come out. What has been done is that Fink has "Master" mirrors set up, on which every source file is supposed to be available. Thi

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This isn't restricted to unstable--the stable tree has similar issues. The upstream sites who produce the sources change things around when new versions come out. What has been done is that Fink has "Master" mirrors set up, on which every source file is supposed to be available. This is in t

[Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi girls and guys, maybe this question has been already answered in the past. but i cannot find a definite answer for this in the archives or in the FAQ. i have already tried the user-list, but with no success til now. since i am using unstable i have always problems with the downloads. i mean