Re: missing poppler and openjpeg packages on mirrors

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 17/08/2017 13:24, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/16/2017 9:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 08/16/2017 05:56 PM, Isaac Hanson wrote:
>>> It seems that some packages have recently gone missing from many
>>> cygwin mirrors.  Specifically, I have noticed all the poppler and
>>> openjpeg packages are gone, while still in the setup.ini and
>>> dependencies of other packages.
>>>
>>> setup.exe reports "HTTP status 404 fetching" and lists the URL to the
>>> package, for example,
>>> "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/poppler/libpoppler66/libpoppler66-0.52.0-1.tar.xz"
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> As posted earlier on the list:
> 
> I don't remember such a post on _this_ list.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-08/msg00143.html

>> sourceware.org is having some fallout from a hardware upgrade (see [1]).
>>
>> Some things got restored from backup.  Work is ongoing.
>>
>> [1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/overseers/2017-q3/msg00060.html
>>
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to move the DNS to point sourceware.org to the IP
> of sourceware2.org until the mess is fixed?  Once the repair is complete
> the DNS can move back to the original IP.

sourceware2 is the pathname for a hot backup, not a hostname.

The reasons for not rolling back to that backup completely are outlined 
in the linked mail.

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