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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:13:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <996ae48c-4d16-907a-f207-7c7b676955dc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39a0c081-e400-fcce-096a-ec582a14faf7@gmail.com>

Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no
>> longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as
>> it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is
>> gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from make.conf so that I
>> don't run into the problem anymore.  While that likely fixes my problem,
>> should I reach out to someone and report that that server is no longer
>> working so it can be either fixed or removed from the lists?  If so,
>> who/where do I report it?  b.g.o maybe?  This is what I get:
>>
>
> I'm sure the infrastructure team would like to be aware of potentially
> malfunctioning servers. If it were me, I'd file a bug and tag it
> Infrastructure somehow so they are aware of it.
>
> Dan
>
>

I took the leap and filed one. 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/761106

Maybe it isn't just me.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-) 


      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-21 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-21 14:09 [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server? Dale
2020-12-21 16:19 ` Daniel Frey
2020-12-21 17:13   ` Dale [this message]

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