[squid-dev] mirrors with missing files

[Alex Rousskov]

On 2023-11-02 07:59, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023-11-01, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> On 1/11/23 09:59, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>> On 2023-10-31 15:39, Francesco Chemolli wrote:
>>>> Before we can migrate ..., we need to deprecate, cleanup and simplify
>>>> a lot.
>>>
>>> Do you really, really _need_ to "deprecate, cleanup, and simplify a lot"
>>> in order to stop mirroring tomorrow?! Start doing new minor releases on
>>> GitHub a month from now? FWIW, I have asked for specifics many times,
>>> but am still unaware of any serious obstacles on the way to those goals.
>>>
>>
>> As I have mentioned multiple times ... there is a reason we have Jenkins
>> building the tarballs.
>>
>>
>> Please run the following commands:
>>
>> wget
>> https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/archive/refs/tags/SQUID_6_3.tar.gz &&
>> 	tar -xvf SQUID_6_3.tar.gz &&
>> 	./configure &&
>> 	make check
> 
> That's using github's on-the-fly generated tarballs; it's also possible to
> upload a "release artefact" which is the proper project-generated tar.gz.


Hi Stuart,

     I hope you have better luck with dismantling these poor excuses and 
FUD! I have been doing that for a long time with no signs of success. 
"Where there is a will, there is a way". We lack the former IMO.


 > (and it doesn't preclude _also_ having mirrors)

... or other valid solutions (for other problems, including the alleged 
problem of "USA hosted content").

Alex.


> See e.g. the irssi releases, https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/tag/1.4.5
> (though also notice the ugly way they try to make sure people download the
> correct file...)