>>>>> Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:15:10 +0100 writes:
>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> >>>>> on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:04 +0000 writes: >> This is not the CRAN webmaster's address[*], and the >> problem has been reported several times already to the >> proper places. No one reading this list apart from the >> handful with CRAN administrator rights can do anything >> about this. >> The package repository is still there, and the check >> information is still up (via >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html). >> The only thing that appears to be missing is the >> web-formatted summary information. That is secondary >> information, and it looks like the web/packages area >> needs to be regenerated. >> My memory is that some of the mirrors do not auto-delete, >> and so will remain populated. I believe >> http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/ to be one of those >> and it looks intact. > Well, yes.. Actually, my mirroring script does > auto-deletion but "slowly": never more than a few hundred > files at a time (apart from the 'Recommended/' > subdirectories: There, it is important to delete, i.e., > important to not have more than one version of a > recommended package .. for our tools/rsync-recommended > script ) In the mean time, I have - changed my mirror script to *NOT* delete anything for now - rsync'ed (-u: do not overwrite newer) a backup of web/packages/ from 2011-12-29 12:20:29 This has recovered 76 Mega bytes already.. Now indeed, the CH mirror should contain a full web/packages/ again, i.e. --> http://cran.CH.r-project.org/web/packages/ which is http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/ should again be "fully loaded". Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel