[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi,


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install some software and get the error:
> <<
>  L'installation a échoué, certains fichiers sont manquants :
>     rsync://
> ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/tainted/release/mencoder-1.0-1.rc4.0.r34578.9.mga2.tainted.x86_64.rpm
> Vous devriez mettre à jour votre base de données urpmi.
>
> Essayer de continuer néanmoins ?
> >>
> (basically the rsync failed)
>
> So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
> "configure media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using
> the $MIRRORLIST default until now).
>
> [Side-note: the other mirror in Japan also had faulty tainted repos. I
> wonder if there is a problem with Japan politics maybe about tainted
> softwares?]
>
>
About my side note, I realize today that Japanese servers seem still down
(or "again"? Since I used alternate servers since this problem I had weeks
ago, I don't know). Have Mageia's Japanese contributor abandonned Mageia?
Thanks.

Jehan
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