[issue1957] mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org offline

[Samuel J. Greear]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan at auroraux.org> added the comment:
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:Hi,
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:What's the news on this?
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:Cheers,
:Edward.

    Avalon is currently in-transit back to the colo after being seriously
    upgraded with new drives and a SSD.  It will probably be Monday before
    it is up again.

    I know this is a bit of an inconvenience.  The package sets are
    available on the mirrors.  Package and snapshot building will resume
    next week.  Upgrading Avalon now (mid-way between releases) is a pretty
    good time to do it despite the annoyance.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon
                                        <dillon at backplane.com>
Something different needs to be done in the future in terms of the hostnames we ship in the makefiles, or the mirror organization, or a procedure for dns changes, or documentation of the mirrors, or something. We do not overtly document the procedures to switch mirrors for src/pkgsrc and besides, it should not have been necessary in this case. All of our users who do not know git have been unable to upgrade anything for the last week.
Sam