Neil Mayhew wrote:
Orion Poplawski <orion <at> cora.nwra.com> writes:
Err http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
403 Forbidden [IP: 69.16.168.245 80]
As far as I can tell, the sourceforge mirror names have been changed, and fink doesn't have a simple way to find out the new mirror names without going to the old mirror.
No it's more complicated--for a while this was an intermittent problem, and didn't happen every time--the new server was being tested for reliability during this time period.
The solution that worked for me was to run "fink reinstall fink" (which builds from source, and hence uses a different mirror), followed "fink configure" (to select the new mirrors) and then "fink selfupdate".
Alternatively you could try editing /sw/etc/apt/sources.list to use the new mirror name "bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist" instead of the old "us.dl.sourceforge.net"
Both of these are in the new FAQ entry on this:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#four-oh-three
Umm...the upstream site changed on us. We don't control them, so what exactly do you propose doing?I'm surprised fink got broken like this. I would have expected the developers to have handled the mirror change more smoothly. Comments, anyone?
Like I said the problem was intermittent for a while, and there's a fix and a FAQ entry on it.
--AH
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