[packman] Packmann OpenSuSE Leap repository still down

[Luigi Baldoni]

Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 7:37 PM
From: "Manfred Hollstein" <manfred.h at gmx.net>
>
> Hi there,
>
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, 18:58:03 +0100, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > in order to make a service to everybody, I checked the current status
> > of the packman mirrors listed in http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors
> >
> > 				http	ftp	rsync
> > packman.inode.at		down	down	down
> > mirrors.hust.edu.cn		up	NA	down
> > mirror.karneval.cz		up	up	up
> > packman.jacobs-university.de	up	up	up
> > ftp.fau.de			up	up	NA
> > ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de	up	up	up
> > ftp.gwdg.de			up	up	up
> > ftp.twaren.net			up	up	NA
> > ftp.yzu.edu.tw			down	down	down
> >
> > Being packman.inode.at the first in the list, it is probably
> > common for people to select that one.
>
> yes, you're right, that's really not good. I think, though, that it is a
> common understanding atm that packman.inode.at is not usable at all -
> just search the archives of this mailing list for packman.inode.at...
>
> > And the fact that it is down (I think since a couple of months)
> > it is causing several complains.
>
> Again, ignore packman.inode.at for now! I'm really not sure who can
> control the page at <http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors>, but I
> always tried the various servers myself, before I used them in the URL
> for zypper!
>
> > Actually packman.inode.at is not down, is the access to the packman
> > area that does not work.
>
> Yeah, but what is it worth it then? Ignore it - full stop!
>
> FWIW, I use mirror.karneval.cz since quite some time, and since it
> recovered from the mirroring issue caused by the expired Multimedia key,
> it is as stable and reliable as it can be!

An additional trouble is that packman.repo on every working mirror points at packman.inode.at.

Now, I don't know how feasible it would be to have each mirror with its own custom .repo file,
but at least it shouldn't point at a dead one.

Regards