You may have noticed that http://www.finkproject.org is unavailable yet again. We’ll try to get this fixed ASAP.
We do have a current backup online at http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/ .
As before, this also affects distribution of updated package descriptions via the rsync mirrors. The following two workarounds are available:
- Use
fink selfupdate-cvsto switch to CVS updating, since CVS service is not affected. - Use a different rsync mirror. The following mirrors update directly from CVS and are not affected by the outage:
rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
The easiest option to change this is to edit/sw/etc/fink.confas a super user (e.g. by usingsudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change theMirror-rsyncline directly.
The disruption also affects the mirroring of package sources. The following two workarounds are suggested:
- Use
fink configure --mirrorand select option 2 at the first prompt, then go through and just hit return to leave everything else unchanged. This will have fink try to download from the original source first. - Use a different master mirror. The following mirrors are not affected by the outage:
http://distfiles.ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/
http://distfiles.hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/
The easiest option to change this is to edit/sw/etc/fink.confas a super user (e.g. by usingsudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change theMirror-masterline directly.
The online documentation is also still available through the Sourceforge CVS browser.
Check back here for updates.
Thanks. Sadly with rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net or
rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net I get “Connection refused”
Both rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ and rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ work from here.
Thanks for the confirmation. Must have been a firewall issue in the office. At home it works
Quite likely. Rsync is often blocked in firewall setups.
Hi, I am new on Fink and I need it for learning purposes. From where I can download the installation package during the outage so I can start using it?
Fortunately, this outage doesn’t directly affect your ability to install Fink. You can download the source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/latest/download
and follow the instructions in http://finkers.wordpress.com/installing-fink/
(or the similar instructions in the INSTALL documents in the fink source).
Perhaps we’ve got some of these beasts in our webserver server closet as well ?
http://oatmeal.tumblr.com/post/2910950328/dear-tumblr
LOL!
Why has the fink website been down for 3 weeks?
Because the machine where it lives is being hosted on a donated basis, at a location where there are no project members, so we don’t have dedicated support.
We do have a backup currently: http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/
Hosting…. I don’t have much by the way of funds, but I have some infrastructure at my disposal . . maybe it needs more attention or capacity than I could spare . . who do I speak to?
fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net is probably the best place to start.
We’re back up and running again.