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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:59, Hamish Greig wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:51, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > There have been a lot of broken links in the grimoire lately, and while
> > most seem to have been fixed it's sort of a pain for the user.  Is there
> > a way we can detect broken links quicker, just as with gaze spider and
> > get the proper links into the grimoires faster?  It's frustrating when a
> > link isn't fixed for a few days. Just one users two cents.
> >
> > Jeremy
>
> We fix links as we find them. You might be referring to GNU_URL failures
> due to them femoving 684 packages from their ftp site to verify their
> integrity after being owned by a hacker for 5 months ...
> Of course if we aren't fixing valid broken links quick enough because we
> have too few active developers and you are already aware of these "broken
> links" then you could take the next step, become active and be incharge of
> URLs :) (no malice intended, all pragmatism)
> Hamish
Oh and two bugs were fixed yesterday.
1) a fallback_url for download.soucemage.org was wrong and 
2) the ftp fallback_url wasn't working due to timstamp checking issues and 
wget
so now even if a link is broken it should fallback to one of five valid 
mirrors.(including warloks which seems to be missing most packages)
But still I am sure it would be hel;pful to have a URL guru :)
Hamish
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