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Check status of AU mirrors

Open flexibeast opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

/u/Klappa4Me reported on /r/voidlinux that the AU mirrors are very out-of-date. We should check the status of those mirrors with their respective maintainers.

flexibeast avatar Aug 01 '20 03:08 flexibeast

https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/voidlinux/ doesn't have up to date current/, but has live images, docs, static xbps. As a Tier 2 mirror, they aren't exactly required to provide any specific guarantees.

Same for https://ftp.swin.edu.au/voidlinux/, it seems.

There's a chance one is syncing from the other, so if we could contact one of them we could get current/ being synced. Otherwise, we need to decide what the policy for listing mirrors is.

ericonr avatar Aug 01 '20 05:08 ericonr

@void-linux/void-ops might have some opinions about it.

ericonr avatar Aug 01 '20 05:08 ericonr

Bandwidth to Australia might as well be done by mailing them disks. I suspect AARNet is just defunct at this point as a mirror, and I don't have a current contact for Swinbourne, but I think they're probably just syncing from the wrong place.

the-maldridge avatar Aug 01 '20 05:08 the-maldridge

I kinda suspect that some mirrors don't sync correctly or break when they try to sync and there is a temporary file from xbps-rindex.

https://twitter.com/eater/status/1268876225415647234

Duncaen avatar Aug 03 '20 10:08 Duncaen

Back in 2018 I contacted Swinburne to try and get some broken syncing for their voidlinux mirror fixed. I didn't do a very good job, but we managed to work out what was wrong and they fixed it.

Contact for Swinburne mirror:

  • email host: swin.edu.au
  • email username: systems

I ended up talking to Con (same day email conversation), but there are also other people behind that email. Australian unis are in the shits right now, so it's less likely you will get as easy of a reply that I did.

(Not putting my hand up to contact them today, apologies, not familiar with the problem & stuck sick)

Veyrdite avatar Aug 04 '20 02:08 Veyrdite

Just wanted to add that after I found out those mirrors were so outdated a few years back, I've just been using the tier 1 de/us mirrors. I'll switch to the new fastly mirror now and see if that's better. In case there is interest in setting up a fresher dedicated AU mirror, I would be another potential user. I don't have the disks to host one myself right now.

adigitoleo avatar Apr 28 '23 07:04 adigitoleo