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

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi,


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 2012/11/26 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
>
> The mirror is not down, you are using a wrong address. The correct
> address for the Mageia mirror is
> ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/mageia/distrib/2/
> (in your link the /Linux/ is missing)
>
>
Thanks for the answer. That was a copy-paste I did at the time though, so
it was definitely

>  --
> wobo
>
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