[arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

[Mike Sampson]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, David C.
Rankin<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        I have had my updates hand horribly over the past several days. So bad, I
> thought there was a bug in pacman. I have even canceled some with ctrl+c out
> of frustration.
>
>        I think I just found out why. I was looking to download the i686 lts kernel
> so I was browsing the various repositories to see which one had it. I tried to
> access packages on archlinux.unixheads.org, and access to the repository did
> the same thing -- just hung. The little spinner in firefox was just going
> round-and-round. Looking at the site it was accessing, I under stood why:
>
> http://www.google-analytics.com/
>
>        Evidently some of the archlinux repos are using google-analytics to trac web
> traffic to the packages and this is killing access to the repository. Here is
> a screenshot:
>
> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hung-repo-ann.jpeg
>
>        I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be helpful to
> Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or misconfigured) web
> traffic analyzer package...

If you used ftp in pacman Google Analytics shouldn't come into play.

Regards,

Mike

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