Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 14, 2010, at 02:57, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

[snip]

>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>>>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>>>> http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/texlive_texmf-full
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>>>> ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles

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> Probably because the file is no longer on openBSD's mirrors. They
> eventually updated texlive.

Too bad they decided to delete the old files from the mirrors. One of the nice functions of a mirror is to provide copies of old files. This is why the MacPorts distfiles mirrors don't delete old files.

> The problematic thing is that the mirror
> that catches upstream problem:
> http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/texlive_texmf-full is not a
> reliable mirror at the moment.

That doesn't seem to be a problem at all. Yes, the mirror appears to be down, but as you can see in the output above, MacPorts tried to connect to it, failed, and moved on to the next mirror, like it should. It should have eventually succeeded at downloading the file from the main distfiles.macports.org mirror.