On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:
> The sourceforge web site was down yesterday and the file defining the
> repository definition was not avalaible.
>
> OPD (GUI or not!) failed because of that.
I replied earlier (although the list is being very slow) that the
repository was not available because of my goof. I don't know whether
SF's outage yesterday also involved project web sites, so I don't know if
that also would have caused OPD to be down (even if I had not goofed).
> What I would suggest is to cache the oscar_repositories.xml into OPD.
> That way, when the repository definition file is not avalaible, the
> "old" one can be used and the packages will be avalaible even if the
> oscar.sf.net web site is down (an up to date version of this file at the
> time of each OSCAR release will be bundled with the regular OSCAR
> distro).
Ahem. OPD actually does cache the file. :-)
But you have to download it at least once to get that cache filled.
I do not think it is a good idea to include a copy of the repository file
in an OSCAR distribution. The whole point is that it is a dynamic list
and may change at any time.
While we all moan and groan whenever SF goes out, the truth is that the
web sites don't go down too often. Indeed, their uptime is actually
pretty good. So I think yesterday -- assuming that if I hadn't messed up
the web repository, SF's outage included project web sites and therefore
OPD would have been "broken" -- is not very common.
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