From: Keith M. <kei...@to...> - 2006-11-21 14:31:21
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Earnie Boyd wrote [on MinGW-users list]: > Dave Murphy made changes last night. I made more this morning ... I understand that these changes addressed issues with the SF mirror selection. Do we need to make similar changes in the mirror selection code in the portmaker, (and all existing mingwPORTS which depend on SF download hosts), and the similar provision in the cross compiler build script I posted a week or so ago? Regards, Keith. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2006-11-21 15:21:42
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Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>: > Earnie Boyd wrote [on MinGW-users list]: >> Dave Murphy made changes last night. I made more this morning ... > > I understand that these changes addressed issues with the SF mirror > selection. Do we need to make similar changes in the mirror selection > code in the portmaker, (and all existing mingwPORTS which depend on > SF download hosts), and the similar provision in the cross compiler > build script I posted a week or so ago? > Yes! However, I've since discovered if we replace ?download with ?use_mirror=<mirror_host> where mirror_host is for example osdn or superb-east we can choose the mirror as we have been. Also the prdownloads has been renamed downloads but redirection will take effect if prdownloads is used. Also, http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw is broken, i.e. it doesn't give a list of files but an error page. I have a support ticket open for that one. Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members just trash mail with html. * Do not use multipart mime to send both text and html versions. * Do not top post replies; post inline with the parts you are responding to. * Trim the post replies; remove irrelevant information from the quoted article. * Original posters: ** Provide small complete examples of the problem. ** Provide the full command that produced errors. ** Provide the versions of the software used. -- ****************************************************************************** * The user of this server has agreed to allow the use of a trailer in the * * mail that he sends for advertising purposes. This advertisment is added * * by the server and is not in the control of the user of our services. * ****************************************************************************** Easy Blogger Creator: <a href="http://give-me-an-offer.com/1006/">Offer 1006</a> 4 Seasons Wine - Buy 6, Get 6 Free <a href="http://give-me-an-offer.com/1007/">Offer 1007</a> |
From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2006-11-21 20:01:37
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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:21, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > I understand that these changes addressed issues with the SF mirror > > selection. =A0Do we need to make similar changes in the mirror selection > > code in the portmaker, (and all existing mingwPORTS which depend on > > SF download hosts), and the similar provision in the cross compiler > > build script I posted a week or so ago? > > Yes! =A0However, I've since discovered if we replace ?download with > ?use_mirror=3D<mirror_host> where mirror_host is for example osdn or > superb-east we can choose the mirror as we have been. So, Earnie, you are considering a URL such as: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/<file>?use_mirror=3D<mirror-host> right? The representation I've used in x86-mingw32-build, which I cribbed from you= r=20 own original mingwPORT implementation is: http://<mirror-host>.dl.sourceforge.net/mingw/<file> I've just plugged that into my Firefox address bar, for the Dublin host, an= d=20 latest mingw-runtime source tarball, and it still seems to work, so we may= =20 not need to change either portmaker or x86-mingw32-build. Or do you think = I=20 should adopt this format ... > Also the=20 > prdownloads has been renamed downloads but redirection will take effect > if prdownloads is used. =2E.. in any case? Regards, Keith. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2006-11-21 21:42:16
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Quoting Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>: > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:21, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> > I understand that these changes addressed issues with the SF mirror >> > selection. Do we need to make similar changes in the mirror selection >> > code in the portmaker, (and all existing mingwPORTS which depend on >> > SF download hosts), and the similar provision in the cross compiler >> > build script I posted a week or so ago? >> >> Yes! However, I've since discovered if we replace ?download with >> ?use_mirror=<mirror_host> where mirror_host is for example osdn or >> superb-east we can choose the mirror as we have been. > > So, Earnie, you are considering a URL such as: > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/<file>?use_mirror=<mirror-host> > > right? > Yes, but > The representation I've used in x86-mingw32-build, which I cribbed from your > own original mingwPORT implementation is: > http://<mirror-host>.dl.sourceforge.net/mingw/<file> > Duh, yes that should still work. > I've just plugged that into my Firefox address bar, for the Dublin host, and > latest mingw-runtime source tarball, and it still seems to work, so we may > not need to change either portmaker or x86-mingw32-build. Or do you think I > should adopt this format ... > The question though becomes, if ?use_mirror=dublin will auto route to a different mirror if dublin isn't available? >> Also the >> prdownloads has been renamed downloads but redirection will take effect >> if prdownloads is used. > > ... in any case? > Hmm... I'm not sure. <mirror_host>.dl.sourceforge.net should work until SF decides to change that URI. However, if our specified mirror_host is down we aren't detecting it. The default use_mirror mirror_host is assigned by JS at the time of file list page display but the php code may actually decide to choose something else if it receives errors from the default. The SF changes aren't documented so I don't know what they're doing. At least it isn't as urgent as the installer that just didn't work at all because it was using the html mirror page to determine the list of mirrors. That page doesn't display any longer and instead the requested file was actually downloaded with a name of mirrorspage but was actually the installer binary and the mirror being used was error.dl.sourceforge.net. Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members just trash mail with html. * Do not use multipart mime to send both text and html versions. * Do not top post replies; post inline with the parts you are responding to. * Trim the post replies; remove irrelevant information from the quoted article. * Original posters: ** Provide small complete examples of the problem. ** Provide the full command that produced errors. ** Provide the versions of the software used. -- ****************************************************************************** * The user of this server has agreed to allow the use of a trailer in the * * mail that he sends for advertising purposes. This advertisment is added * * by the server and is not in the control of the user of our services. * ****************************************************************************** Easy Blogger Creator: <a href="http://give-me-an-offer.com/1006/">Offer 1006</a> 4 Seasons Wine - Buy 6, Get 6 Free <a href="http://give-me-an-offer.com/1007/">Offer 1007</a> |