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

[David C. Rankin]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> >         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...
> 
> pacman does not load any html web pages anyway; so there is no problem at
>  all.
> 

Pierre,

	I know you are right, but how do you get around the http:// protocol? I look 
at the mirrorlist and I see:

# United States
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686 
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<snip remaining US repos>

	How does pacman get around it? Wouldn't it be subject to whatever is 
monitoring http requests on that site just like any other page or file?

	Hopefully, the hang is just a temporary issue there, but probably every 3rd 
or 4th update pacman has been hanging. It hasn't done that in the 3-4 months 
I've enjoyed arch, just in the past few days. Hopefully the atavism will 
subside.


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