Re: garnome-daily issues

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:07 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> FWIW, this has been a problem ever since Sourceforge moved to the
> mirroring system script they use now -- everything's fine if all the
> mirrors sync up, but sometimes your .tar.gz will consist of a broken
> webpage when the redirection fails.
> 
> It was one of the main reasons I used to host a bunch of files directly
> on the cipherfunk FTP site -- so people looking for things like docbook
> would no longer be 'trapped in the system' as it were.

Yeah, unfortunately we can not do this with our w.g.o accounts. Well, we
could, but we really shouldn't. ;)

FWIW, besides using other mirrors wherever we can, we are currently
pondering some fallback ideas for such and similar cases...

...guenther


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