On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Noèl Köthe wrote: > is it possible to get information about the problem with packages.d.o
packages.debian.org was disabled because the load of the machine hosting it, saens.debian.org, which also is our only ftp.debian.org at the moment, rose to 141.32, 135.82, 135.71, as on January 4th, due to amongst others a cron job from packages.debian.org started in 2005 still running -- and probably more. packages.debian.org was already very slow for days, as multiple people noticed on IRC. Therefore all nonstatic pages were disabled by DSA to keep saens, and hence ftp.debian.org, working. The maintainer of it is informed, I don't know the further status of it. > and the experimental problem? Eh, considering I'm member of the ftp-master team, what problem are you talking about? There isn't any mail about any problem in my ftpmaster inbox that I can see, nor any bug filed. The only thing I can think of you must've been referring to is the following: A while ago, the actual Packages and Sources files were moved to dists/experimental instead of project/experimental, where they were historically, but that change should not affect anyone using normal apt sources.list syntax in their sources files, as that will still do the right thing, and actually, now without relying on a symlink, but because of the correct location of things now. The original intent was to have a symlink from project/ back to dists/, but because of a rsync misfeature, it is not possible anymore for the Debian archive to have a directory replaced by a symlink... so a symlink called "experimental-is-in-dists-now" instead was created at that spot. Moving the symlink to 'experimental' again might cause issues for mirrors having a period of not updating and later on starting again, and nobody should've been using the project/experimental way of accessing experimental anymore anyway. I think it'll be better to have it not reappear, also considering that so far nobody has complained at all, and by now, most of the remaining users of that location must've switched away from it... Personally, I think there are more interesting things happing in Debian that are worth d-d-a coverage than moving some symlinks around, though (well, unless it's for releasing a new stable Debian version, I guess). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]