[tahoe-dev] would the Volunteer Grid be an appropriate host for our dependencies?

[Terrell Russell]

is there a way to daisy chain the dependencies?

from tahoe-lafs grid first...

then, further fallback to hosted apache files?

terrell




On 12/11/09 11:47 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> We used to host a bunch of open source packages on the Test Grid --
> packages that Tahoe-LAFS depends on and needs to download in order to
> build.  We eventually turned that off because the Test Grid was having
> problems were some server on it would abruptly disconnect and so the
> download would stall for minutes before timing out.  See ticket #287
> (download: tolerate lost/missing servers).
> 
> So instead we copied all of those dependencies from the Test Grid onto
> the linux server http://allmydata.org where they get served up by
> apache.  I was sad about this because I think we should eat our own
> dog food, but at the time the way we were doing it was causing too
> many headaches for people trying to install Tahoe-LAFS.  See #566 for
> the whole sad story including hyperlinks to the old (Test Grid) and
> new (apache/linux) repositories.
>