All of the distributions should be updated (or in the process of synchronizing) by now -- except Gentoo, the one major distribution that had an "unofficial" mirror. The portage mirror is still there, though, available over HTTP or rsync.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Ken Tossell <k...@tossell.net> wrote: > Sorry, I missed your first message to the list. The mirror is actually > trying to sync each of the distros several times each day, but the storage > requirements keep outgrowing our disks. I usually address this by deleting > old releases, but now I'm going to just drop a mirror or two... at least > until we get new disks (need to order them, install, transfer lots of > content) > Most distros will have scripts that will have noticed the mirror is out of > date, so people should not be getting sent here automatically. > Ken > > > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Nick Cummings <ni...@umd.edu> wrote: > > After silence from the UMLUG list, I checked out the contact page on the > UMOSS site. > > http://mirror.umoss.org/contact/ > > I emailed the listed address, mir...@umoss.org, but, after 3 days of trying, > gmail says it is unable to deliver the message. So, unless I hear otherwise > from someone, I'm going to assume that the UMOSS site is no longer being > actively maintained. > > For anyone interested, the following was the message gmail gave me about the > failure to deliver the email: > > "Technical details of permanent failure: > Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient > domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further > information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server > returned was: 452 452 4.3.1 Insufficient system storage (state 13)." > > Kind regards, > > Nick > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Nick Cummings <ni...@umd.edu> wrote: >> >> For a while I've had my Ubuntu (10.04) machine set to use the UMOSS mirror >> for apt. I was recently having a problem with a package >> (flashplugin-installer), and on a whim I went into the repository dialog in >> synaptic and selected the main US mirror instead. Upon updating, I found >> there are now a bunch of packages waiting to upgrade, and installing that >> version of flashplugin-installer works. So what I'm wondering is, is the >> UMOSS mirror actually up to date? >> >> I'm honestly not sure how to verify when it was last updated and compare >> that to the main mirror. It's, of course, possible that I just hit a narrow >> window between when the main mirror was update and when the UMOSS one was, >> but that does seem relatively improbable. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Nick > >
