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bug#21784: cannot install icecat!
From: |
Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
bug#21784: cannot install icecat! |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:23:40 +0200 |
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:20:19 +0200
Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:30:39 +0000
> "-=}\\*/{=-" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > starting download of
> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz' from `
> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz'...
> > ERROR: download failed "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" 403
> > "Forbidden"
> > failed to download
> > "/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" from "
> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz"
> > builder for
> > `/gnu/store/1y6b3ar37ff4q16714m77d56giv01cr5-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz.drv' failed to
> > produce output path
> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz'
>
> from tukaani.org/xz:
>
> Important
>
> Availability of .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files of certain old XZ Utils versions
> have been temporary suspended because they are consume too much of the web
> hosting bandwidth quota. The files will be restored in November 2015, but
> further changes may be needed if the problem persist. Sorry for the
> inconvenience.
>
> It would be nice if developers of source-based distributions had their own
> mirrors from where the users' computers would download the source packages.
> It's not good if a package manager on every user's machine downloads the
> source package from the upstream site.
>
> If we didn't need xz to unpack the tarball we could switch it. 5.0.4 is
> pretty old, is that for the bootstrap?
>
I spoke too soon, 5.0.4 is our current copy while 5.2.2 is upstream, and the
5.0.x branch is apparently now unmaintained. Unfortunately, I think it's fair
to say that at least half of the packages depend on xz, including the
bootstrap, so updating will involve lots of rebuilds.
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- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, -=}\\*/{=-, 2015/10/29
- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, Efraim Flashner, 2015/10/29
- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!,
Efraim Flashner <=
- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, -=}\\*/{=-, 2015/10/29
- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, -=}\\*/{=-, 2015/10/29
- bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, Efraim Flashner, 2015/10/29
- bug#21784: Alternate xz-5.0.4.tar.gz URL, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/30
- bug#21784: Alternate xz-5.0.4.tar.gz URL, Andreas Enge, 2015/10/30
- bug#21784: Alternate xz-5.0.4.tar.gz URL, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/31
- bug#21784: Alternate xz-5.0.4.tar.gz URL, Andreas Enge, 2015/10/31
bug#21784: cannot install icecat!, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/29