Updated News for Livna Repo

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Posted by Thomas Chung on 2005-11-07

From: Dams <anvil@livna.org>

To: Thomas Chung <tchung@fedoranews.org>

Sent: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:55:53 +0100

Subject: Re: livna repository.

Hello again !

Some status updates, if you're ever interested : I've just been told by

Gael that someone will be there Thursday evening (Europe evening) to

re-animate the server. This is pretty good news.

In the meantime, thanks to Nils Philippsen, the rpm.livna.org mirror at

ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de has accepted to become rpm.livna.org until the

original server is back.

Sounds a bit better than earlier.

D

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Dams <anvil@livna.org>

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From: Dams <anvil@livna.org>

To: Thomas Chung <tchung@fedoranews.org>

Sent: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:06:10 +0100

Subject: livna repository.

Hello Thomas.

I was expecting news this morning and unfortunately they are not good.

We made the box reboot last Thursday.. remotely. It never came back.

Someone has been to the datacenter Saturday afternoon, but there has

been some complications (nothing really bad - just a software problem -

but it refuses to reboot) and the server is still not up at the moment.

Nobody will be able to fix the server before the end of the week. The

owner of rpm.livna.org system, Gael, is 600km away from the server and

it'll be a bit tiring (and a bit expensive too) to go to Paris and back

in a single day (it means 6-7h by TGV..). If he cant go, we will have to

wait at least another week.

We are truly very sorry for all of our users, but there's nothing we can

do to fix that *except* giving them a new livna-release rpm which will

work around this problem. You can blame me from not enabling the

mirrorlist by default in the livna.repo file in the first place : I

really apologize.

The new livna-release package is available at:

http://livna.org/~anvil/livna-release.rpm

This package should just work as it'll backup your previous livna.repo

file and install its own. So, just download it with wget and invoke `rpm

-Uvh' on it to upgrade.

Again, we apologize for the problems it causes.

D

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Dams <anvil@livna.org>