[WBEL-users] problem with rsync script

[Kirby C. Bohling]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:50:49PM +0100, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> >On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Anth Courtney wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello Michiel,
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is there a problem with ncsu?
> >>
> >>It appears that the whitebox/3.0/en/updates folder doesn't exist on
> >>ncsu anymore.
> >>
> >>Connecting via ftp and doing a list of the whitebox/3.0/en directory
> >>confirms this:
> >>
> >>ftp> ls
> >>227 Entering Passive Mode (152,1,138,20,38,51)
> >>150 Here comes the directory listing.
> >>drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            4096 Nov 16 11:10 extras
> >>drwxr-xr-x    4 0        0            4096 Nov 16 11:10 iso
> >>drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0           36864 Oct 11 02:24 obsolete-updates
> >>drwxr-xr-x    4 0        0            4096 Nov 16 11:10 os
> >>
> >>If you run your rsync script and specify os instead of updates, then
> >>it runs without error.
> >
> >
> >Do CentOS or Taos or whatever have these problems?
> 
> I don't know..as far as I can see it only a rsync problem 'cause NCSU is 
> the only host delivering rsync updates.
> I changed my scripts to wget/ftp..and ftp.belnet.be as update host..
> No problemo :)

Actually NCSU is the only one listed publically that has an rsync
server.  At least one other mirror site provides rsync access:

rsync://mirrors.esat.net/ftp/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/

However, they appear to mirror for NCSU.  I get the same
problem from them.  I can pull updates directly from
whiteboxlinux.org via HTTP (which I thought was supposed to be
limited access).  I never pull them directly to conserve on
bandwidth.  The most recent update in the i386 directory is
xscreensaver on Oct 10, 2004.

My guess is that probably a couple of the others allow rsync, you
just have to poke around.

Here are others:
rsync://rsync.belnet.be/packages/whiteboxlinux/3.0/en/.
rsync://rsync.kspei.com/whitebox/3.0/en/.

I generally assume they'd prefer rsync access if I can find it given
that it's generally more efficient then FTP once I have the bulk of
the data.

However, all of these have exactly the same problem.  I can't even
get to the updates on belnet.be via HTTP.  

If you try all of the updates links from this page:

http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html

Only these actually work:
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/3.0/en/updates/
ftp://whitebox.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/


This one works, but is dreadfully out of date:
http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/3.0/en/updates/

	I'd say something is fairly systemically wrong at the source
given how many of them have problems.

	Thanks,
		Kirby