Belnet pacman mirror

aardwolf · 2009-10-01 20:15:01

Hello,

I have an internet connection of a university that works as follows:

You can download only 4GB per month off the internet with your account. But since Belnet is our backbone and contains only educational things like linux distributions, you may download from belnet without it costing any gigabytes.

My next pacman full system upgrade, is 900MB. I'd like to use belnet to upgrade archlinux to be able to use this 900MB for other things.

But, the belnet archlinux mirror, at http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.o … y/os/i686/, doesn't work for me anymore. If I go to that URL, it keeps loading forever, but does nothing.

Could you try in a browser if that URL works for you?

Can someone of Archlinux fix this, or is it completely up to the Belnet administrators?

If anyone can help, thank you very much!

Denacke · 2009-10-01 20:21:19

It loads for me (also from Belgium, not at my university's belnet connection right now though, could test that tomorrow). It takes a very long time to load though.

Edit: Just noticed that the mirror is not really working that well for me. Switched to a different one and i get 400 MBs of updates .

Last edited by Denacke (2009-10-01 20:27:20)

.:B:. · 2009-10-01 20:24:03

The specific i686 repo seems to load slow, but other parts of the site seem ok (in fact I downloaded both the netinstall ISO and USB stick image from it yesterday, I'm in Belgium too). Maybe you just need to hold out for a while?

Raffles10 · 2009-10-01 22:24:42

404 not found.

Denacke · 2009-10-02 10:37:35

Link has a comma in it, remove it before you test it

Anyway, reporting from my university's belnet connection and i can't access it from here!

Nepherte · 2009-10-02 15:46:11

It was accessible for me yesterday from KUL, haven't tried today. I'll check on sunday again. The belnet mirror has always had its problems though. Either being completely out of sync (like it is now, especially extra x86_64), or simply down. If it's a laptop you can always use wireless campus net and a different mirror (it's not subtracted from your download limit).

Dieter@be · 2009-10-02 16:09:29

for an alternative Belgian mirror, try the one mentioned @ http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16202
It's not an official mirror yet, but works fine for me (and I was the one who set it up ;-)

Raffles10 · 2009-10-02 16:51:32

Denacke wrote:

Link has a comma in it, remove it before you test it
Anyway, reporting from my university's belnet connection and i can't access it from here!

Removed comma, it loads.....very.....slowly. I used to use belnet whenever the uk mirrors were out of sync, used to be reliable.

isaie · 2009-10-05 13:50:53

I have had lots of ups and downs with the belnet mirror as well. A lot of packages are out of date. Even though http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html says it is up-to-date (at present anyhow).

And here's a package that seems out of sync in a lot of mirrors : sshfs

Its been updated two days ago (to 2.2-2) :

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50

But pacman still tries to install version 2.2-1 :

:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'sshfs-2.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'sshfs-2.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

AS you can see it's also out-of-sync on the main mirror...

Another weird thing : the following mirror :

http://mirror.leaseweb.com/software/arc … a/os/i686/

lists the package correctly (2.2-2), but this mirror is not even listed in the Mirror List from the wiki...

PS: is it possible to tell pacman to install a specific version of a package ?

Last edited by isaie (2009-10-05 13:55:09)

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#1 2009-10-01 20:15:01

Belnet pacman mirror

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Re: Belnet pacman mirror

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Re: Belnet pacman mirror

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