On 05/19/17 11:18, Edd Barrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:04:00PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote:
>>> try adding "https://paclan.it/distfiles/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz"; as
>>> [my] mirror.
>>
>> Thanks, that is the only mirror that worked for me!
>
> I've fixed the REVISION bump (and associated WANTLIB change) that Paul
> pointed out, and added the new mirrors.
>
> Overnight I tested the mirror configuration.
>
> * Tug kicked me off after about 4% of the texmf distfile.
> * Ports then tried math.utah, which stalled and hung indefinitely.
> * Thus we didn't get as far as the third mirror.
>
> Presumably it's not fair to use paclan.it as the first mirror, Giovanni?
>
> I'm toying with the idea of uploading the distfiles to archive.org. I've
> deposited huge payloads there in the past. They have the capacity, but
> I'd like to check it's OK first.
>
if archive.org is an option I think it would be better, I can always host the
second mirror if math.utah stalls.
then we should fix ftp(1).
Giovanni
