RE: [pyalbum-general] Problem getting nightly tarball

[Mark H. <mha...@sk...>]

> Before I switch the repository to SVN, I wanted to get the latest CVS
> backup.
>
> Trying to access
> <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/pyalbum-cvsroot.tar.bz2> gets me:
>
> Proxy Error
> The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
> The proxy server could not handle the request GET
> /cvstarballs/pyalbum-cvsroot.tar.bz2.
> Reason: Max-Forwards has reached zero - proxy loop?

I've seen this in the past, but have no idea if it is real or transient.

> Trying to use the command-line cvs client (I am running Kubuntu 5.10) gets
> me this:
> $ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/pyalbum login
> Logging in to :pserver:ano...@cv...:2401/cvsroot/pyalbum
> CVS password:
> cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above
> messages if any)
>
> This is the first time I have used CVS (does it show?).  Am I doing
> something wrong or do I need to contact SF support?

My pywin32 project has the same problem atm, and
http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/ shows "partial outage" for CVS services...

Cheers,

Mark