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

Mon Nov 26 14:51:09 CET 2012

Hi,
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+On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>wrote:
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+> 2012/11/26 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:
+> > 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.
+>
+> The mirror is not down, you are using a wrong address. The correct
+> address for the Mageia mirror is
+> ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/mageia/distrib/2/
+> (in your link the /Linux/ is missing)
+>
+>
+Thanks for the answer. That was a copy-paste I did at the time though, so
+it was definitely
+
+>  --
+> wobo
+>
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