Warty Backports Going to Continue

[jdong]

Since the new backports system was easier to set up than previously anticipated, I will continue to develop Warty backports on the new system. Hang tight as I proceed with migration.

[Quest-Master]

Yes. <3

[jdong]

Note that this continuation of the Warty Backports tree is still gonna be a kind-of experiment to see if our bandwidth donor will be able to handle the typical load.

[Skid]

Note that this continuation of the Warty Backports tree is still gonna be a kind-of experiment to see if our bandwidth donor will be able to handle the typical load.
What amount of bandwidth do you typically push through on a monthly figure (if you have that data, and are willing to release it)?

Cheers.

[jdong]

What amount of bandwidth do you typically push through on a monthly figure (if you have that data, and are willing to release it)?

Cheers.

I do not have that figure -- SF doesn't give me that kind of output. But on average, 200 files are requested daily, via SF.net publicly accessible project stats. Most of the time, I project, it's gonna be either

1. Search engine indexing front page
2. apt-get update'ing, pulling the tiny Packages.gz files.

[jdong]

Ok, 400MB worth of repository stuff uploaded and sync'ed, ready to go for backporting again.

First off, I saw that Hoary now has readahead. I'll first play with that.

[oracledarren]

Could you let me have the addresses to put in my apt.sources please so I can start using the Warty backport?

Thanks

Darren

[jdong]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=8486

I updated the Welcome thread with the new addresses. Note also that there are "main restricted universe multiverse" sections for every distribution -- that changed from last time!

[oracledarren]

Thanks I will do that now :)

Darren

[xpt]

[QUOTE=jdongI will continue to develop Warty backports on the new system. Hang tight as I proceed with migration.[/QUOTE]

Is the deb source at:

deb http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net/ubuntu ?

If so, could you add AMD64 architecture please? I think SF have that architecture for you to compile.

Thanks a lot!

[jdong]

deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-extras main restricted universe multiverse



Even though SF.net has AMD64 and PPC systems that I can compile on, they will NOT let me take over my 5.0GB Warty chroot environments. This pretty much makes them useless.

[ember]

First of all, great work. The backports project at last made it possible for me to switch more or less completely to linux with much lesser effort than I expected.

Yet at the moment, Thunderbird locales are missing - I've tested the new locale-de-package from hoary here on my computer and it seems to work. So maybe that could be of interesert for other people.

[jdong]

Yet at the moment, Thunderbird locales are missing - I've tested the new locale-de-package from hoary here on my computer and it seems to work. So maybe that could be of interesert for other people.

I will build ALL thunderbird 1.0 locales this week!

[akurashy]

deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-extras main restricted universe multiverse



Even though SF.net has AMD64 and PPC systems that I can compile on, they will NOT let me take over my 5.0GB Warty chroot environments. This pretty much makes them useless.

when i reload with the repository there a lot of failing on the list O_o
i think is the host or soemting O_o

[jdong]

More info please? There may be "Ign" messages, which means that Release files are missing, or a certain branch is empty.

[Suzan]

Thank you for the great work! :-)

It's brilliant to have actual software in the stable Ubuntu release.

[xpt]

More info please?

They might just be timeouts. I clicked on that url in my browser. Now it is 1.5 minutes later, and it still says "loading". I remember trying it yesterday and it failed at the end also.

Could you mirror your repository in SF please?

thanks

[jdong]

They might just be timeouts. I clicked on that url in my browser. Now it is 1.5 minutes later, and it still says "loading". I remember trying it yesterday and it failed at the end also.

Could you mirror your repository in SF please?

thanks

Ok, if you browse it by hand, you need a trailing "/" on the URL -- it's standard procedure with apache2 and any WebDAV extension.

Well, I can't really mirror it in Sourceforge. The repository is about 1GB right now, well over the SF.net Project Services limit. My request for sandboxing has gone unresolved for well over a month now. Plus, they do not support atomicity, so during the mirror syncing process, you're more than likely to get corrupt downloads.


SF.net has been pretty awful for me in this project.


I've spoke with ubuntu-geek today, and am hoping to be able to use our forum's server to host the SVN repository, provided that he can get us SVN support!

[xpt]

Now it is 1.5 minutes later, and it still says "loading". I remember trying it yesterday and it failed at the end also.

Just FYI, 15 minutes passed, I finially get a untitled blank page.

[jdong]

You must refer to it as:
http://cloud9.homelinux.net:81/ubuntu/backports/

not just
http://cloud9.homelinux.net:81/ubuntu/backports


Gentoo Apache2 is very anal about trailing slashes with DAV.

[joede]

You must refer to it as:
http://cloud9.homelinux.net:81/ubuntu/backports/


Doesn't work here too. I don't get a connect for three days now.

[fng]

Get:19 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/main Release [93B]
Get:20 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/restricted Packages [20B]
Get:21 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/restricted Release [99B]
Get:22 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/universe Packages [29.2kB]
Get:23 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/universe Release [97B]
Get:24 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/multiverse Packages [20B]
Get:25 http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com warty-backports/multiverse Release [99B]
works fine here

How is your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
I'll post here my section about backports :


##############Ubuntu Warty Backports################
deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports main
deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports restricted
deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports universe
deb http://cloud9.somniumcomputing.com:81/ubuntu/backports warty-backports multiverse

[jdong]

Yeah, I'm transferring the entire repository from cloud9 to the Ubuntu forums, so the upload pipe on cloud9 is completely FILLED! 90% done as of now.

[emperor]

Looking for backports link this morning (4:50 am CST US) and it dead; even forum link. When will the repo be live again? I would like to upgrade kernel to 2.6.10 to fix shutdown problem and maybe Firefox to 1.0.

[jdong]

Hmm, we're up now. Don't know what happened.

[emperor]

I can see this now: http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/ but can not browse the repo.

[jdong]

Yeah working on that. Mod_ssl caused quite a bit of destruction.