FWIW, I see no downtime in my logs. On Tuesday, January 13, 2015, Asumu Takikawa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I've been trying to update my Racket checkout and it's getting stuck on > the `raco pkg update -a` phase of the Makefile. > > It's failed something like 9 times in a row for me with errors of the > following form: > > tcp-connect: connection failed > detail: host not found > address: pkgs.racket-lang.org > port number: 80 > step: 1 > system error: Name or service not known; errno=-2 > context...: > > I've had errors like this before when trying to build Docker images for > Racket. I would start out with a minimal Racket and then try to install > all of the main distribution packages via the network. It would usually > fail with a tcp-connect error like this. > > In the Docker case, I gave up and used a git checkout of all the > packages and installed them locally. > > Can we improve reliability of the package server for this use case or > alternatively set up a meta-repo of all the main distribution packages > (that can be checked out at once) to avoid this kind of thing? > > Cheers, > Asumu > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33
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