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Bulletin #321 New installation and build images - quarenta años construyendo autonomía - a little struggle from below for data autonomy
To celebrate yesterday's 40th anniversary since darkness broke, a little light came through, and we now can no longer be innocently waiting, we know there is a way out.
We know we shouldn't work on anniversaries and holidays, we should celebrate, but we have little to celebrate here, we have 0 autonomy and a lot of work to begin constructing it, so we produced some fresh improved images to make it easier for those whose sight is pointing towards the same direction, and we some day will meet.
For information on how to do things click the link above named wiki
It may take 500 years, or 40, or 30, or 20, or 10, but can't imagine any less, so it will not be tomorrow, or next week, or next year, it is too early and we are too immature to recognize what it takes.
So back to work, enough with the celebration, avoid the hydra of IBM's systemd, facebook's zstd, NSA's ipv6, google's... everything! Lock them out, continue your work but not carelessly! Don't trust anything new, as being better, it is where the lure and hooks are hiding.
Arch Epoch is not accepted by SourceForge
It is most likely if you get such an error on installation or update it is a package that contains a colon : in the name for the Arch epoch, grub is a very common one that does.
What to do:
Reinstall jobo-mirror and follow the simple steps.
After re/installation of the pkg a directory with a script will be found in /tmp/sf01
Run the script as root, when it is done you will be able to do updates/upgrades without a 404 error from the SF server.
Explanation (why you have to do it):
This downloads a tarball [non-sf-pkgs.tar.xz](https://sourceforge.net/projects/joborun/files/r/non-sf-pkgs.tar.xz/download) explodes it, takes the packages that contain the : and moves them to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ the default pacman cache directory. Next time you run pacman -Su it will not try to download them from sf (sourceforge) as they will all be in your cache.
It is 37 pkgs that cause the issue, it is a dirty solution, especially for those in lack of space (40MB) and a slow connection.
The alternative will be to do this per package on your own, substitute a \_ for a : (SF renames our packages this way, that is why they can't be found by pacman's curl) ~~then rename it back to the correct name and place it in cache or~~ install it directly with
pacman -U xxxname_1-yyy-yyy-01-pkg.tar.lz
when the name of the package was:
xxxname:1-yyy-yyy-01-pkg.tar.lz
So the missing packages are there it is just SF renaming them with a \_ instead of :
At least OSDN when it worked it used correct unix fs naming instead of this MicSoft filesystem SF uses, but in lack of alternatives this will have to do for now.
We can rebuild all 37 packages in a day or two, and remove the Arch defined epoch from the naming-numbering sequence, and it will be all OK with SF and pacman with no errors. Automatically this makes all 37 (+ 10 mesa packages since Aug 4 23) pkgs fall behind arch and will all show up daily as in need for upgrade. Even if you have a pkg samplepkg-9.99-99.pkg.tar.lz a pkg named samplepkg:1-0.00-01.pkg.tar.lz will appear ahead. There is no simple reasonable way to deal with this, and while we are tracking 700+ pkgs to keep up with the Arch speed-train this will cause more misses than help.
Other distros don't use the epoch at all, so mirrors with NTFS/fat32 servers can host their packages.
Our up and down, on and off, saga with OSDN came to an end after an 18 day downtime of the upload server. This not only prevented us from publishing new images but also kept joborun packages back by 3 weeks while Obarun and Arch kept rolling forward. Although none reported breakage of any applications (system wouldn't be affected in any way, but graphical integrity was being at risk), we located a new solution that is hopefully much more reliable than OSDN.
Our friends and comrades at sysdfree.wordpress.com watching our struggle to deal with the OSDN outtage, and understanding the dillema we were facing as a collective, took the liberty to create, configure, and provide us with a sourceforge server.
Our source repository remains at git.disroot.org/joborun-pkg to which an additional repository was added with the 3 pacman repo-databases, a copy of the latest pacman pkg, and joborun mirror package. This serves as an immediate update of the repositories for those building from source, as well as a backup upgrade notification means for (and if) binary mirrors go down again. git.disroot.org has been 100% reliable in our near 2 year experience with them. So pacman.conf remains unaffected from now on, all you need to select mirrors is edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-jobo which comes and will be updated by the jobo-mirror package.
We wish us a good summer without OSDN worries for sure, an uneventful transition to SF, and wish you happy installing and package building season.
For older news see previous NEWS entries
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