On 2021-06-12 at 12:52, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-12 12:21 p.m., John E Petersen wrote: > >> Hey folks, I’m developing a unique kernel based on Debian Linux, >> and I’ve been scraping the website for repositories. After a few >> thousand, the servers start to block my ip. >> >> I’m just trying to keep the crazy government out of Linux, because >> they keep monkeying with repositories on Ubuntu, not to mention >> snap/snapd/brltty/systemd… > > Did you smoke something that wasn't meant to end up in your lungs ? > Have you ingested some mushrooms ? > > What you write here is a total screw-up non-sense !
I think it's mostly just a matter of mistaken terminology. There may well be faulty assumptions underlying parts of it (certainly there are things which it seems to be assuming are true that I would probably disagree about), but not nearly as much as you seem to be parsing. I interpreted the original mail as asking a question roughly along the lines of: "I'm trying to create my own Linux distribution, based on Debian, because I think a lot of the things that have been happening in Debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu lately are the result of insane government action. However, in the course of trying to pull all existing Debian packages et cetera to create a local repository to use as the base of this distro, I can only download a few thousand items; after that, the server starts blocking my IP address, even though I'm not doing anything malicious. Why is this happening, and how can I get an appropriate replica of the appropriate repositories / et cetera, to use as the basis of such a derived distribution?" Except mistakenly using the term "kernel" instead of "distribution", and with more detail (albeit still vague and FUD-ish) about specific things which are interpreted as evidence of government-insanity meddling. Just at a glance, I'd guess that the problem is that the downloads are hammering the servers, and they're blocking the downloading IP address as an anti-DoS measure. I had a similar issue at one point for rather different reasons, and if memory serves, I avoided the issue by just adding a (possibly-semi-random) delay period - of only a few seconds - after the download of each consecutive file. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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