hi alex
I forgot all about dryrun. This sounds like a great thing for somebody to run every so often and post the bad connections to the maintainers.
wow, just fyi. the situation is not that bad. i have run a dryrun and tested most of the urls and there are about 90 out of 3000 packages which results in a 404 and about 25 with a 503. there also some other error messages like 30x and other 50x, but in total these are only 180 or so.
seems to be a fulltime job to inform the maintainers of the packages. :)
They are all supposed to read the fink-devel list :-)
I wanted to make just one remark: All the gnome packages have the problem that the gnome mirrors are notoriously and inherently unreliable. Quite frequently, the first couple of mirrors give you a selection of error messages, but the third or fifth or tenth mirror is working. This situation, while somewhat annoying, is still acceptable, but in your automatic test, the packages would probably be marked as broken.
-- Martin
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