[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

Mon Nov 26 13:41:56 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+
+On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> Hi,
+>
+> I am trying to install some software and get the error:
+> <<
+>  L'installation a échoué, certains fichiers sont manquants :
+>     rsync://
+> ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/tainted/release/mencoder-1.0-1.rc4.0.r34578.9.mga2.tainted.x86_64.rpm
+> Vous devriez mettre à jour votre base de données urpmi.
+>
+> Essayer de continuer néanmoins ?
+> >>
+> (basically the rsync failed)
+>
+> So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
+> "configure media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using
+> the $MIRRORLIST default until now).
+>
+> [Side-note: the other mirror in Japan also had faulty tainted repos. I
+> wonder if there is a problem with Japan politics maybe about tainted
+> softwares?]
+>
+>
+About my side note, I realize today that Japanese servers seem still down
+(or "again"? Since I used alternate servers since this problem I had weeks
+ago, I don't know). Have Mageia's Japanese contributor abandonned Mageia?
+Thanks.
+
+Jehan
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