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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

Kevin,

the biggest issue here is that a couple of recent migrations from
server to server and loss of dbg (2015-2016) had ruined our *proper*
mirroring procedure which had been working just fine over the years
before this disruption happened. So first of all we need to fix this.
Thomas is helping us out with his mirror, but the overall setup is not
perfect yet, and we also lack hands.

Second, we should stop generating spell updates at such speed, but
instead invest this time into polishing, releasing and updating
stables. As of now it is way more stable for general use (especially
for critical server purposes) than what we have now in test with latest
and greatest GCC and dozens of daily non-tested updates. If you have a
stable core (for which you might probably need to crawl over the Net
for some missing sources), then building a stable system with >500
spells while keeping the very recent ones that you urgently need in a
local grimoire is quite real.

So we can't simply ask upstream to stop breaking URLs: this happened so
many times to kernel.org, sf.net, pypi and many others. I'm not even
talking about tiny projects which migrate from hosting to hosting every
now and then.

I fixed several of source URL a week ago (including the zlib one), but
didn't check all of them. To all: feel free to come up with patches,
and probably they'll be included in upcoming stable-0.62-10.

I have no ETA on stable-0.63 as of now, because it would need a decent
amount of testing regarding revert to gcc 4.9 and smooth upgrade path
from 0.62, but there's still a very little interest in working on stable
grimoire among general developers.

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:49:35 -0600
Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:22:36AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> 
> > I'm now trying the suggested sorcery rebuild and am seeing a lot of summon
> > failures due to stable grimoire outdated spell versions.
> 
> Between the few spells I cast separately and the sorcery rebuild these are
> the summon failures I encountered:
> 
> 
>     summon    text-formattable        1.00    failure download failed
>     summon    expat   2.1.0   failure download failed
>     summon    zlib    1.2.8   failure download failed
>     summon    libusb  1.0.19  failure download failed
>     summon    net-tools       1.60    failure download failed
>     summon    sysfsutils      2.1.0   failure download failed
>     summon    libusb-compat   0.1.5   failure download failed
>     summon    reiserfsprogs   3.6.21  failure download failed
>     summon    gdisk   0.8.10  failure download failed
>     summon    ppp     2.4.5   failure download failed
>     summon    man     1.6g    failure download failed
>     summon    libaal  1.0.5   failure download failed
>     summon    reiser4progs    1.0.7   failure download failed
>     summon    linux   3.4     failure download failed
> 
> The only cast failures I saw during the sorcery rebuild were due to missing
> sources.  But those must have caused other spells to be skipped.  After it
> finished it left 82 spells in the install queue.  It looks like the age of
> some of the spells in the stable grimoire are starting to have a negative
> impact on its stability.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kevin
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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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