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> Timothy Pearson composed on 2015-10-05 00:40 (UTC-0500):
>
>>> Tim's is inaccessible nearly as often as not here in SE USA, including
>>> recent hours.
>
>> I don't think that's a fair assessment...while my uptime isn't has high
>> as
>> I would like it isn't really that bad.
>
> I have lots of installations of various versions of openSUSE, *buntu,
> Mageia,
> Fedora, Debian and others, but approximately more openSUSE than all the
> rest
> combined. Routine openSUSE update process here, which can happen any day
> of
> week and any time of day or night, is:
>
> 	# zypper ref
> 	# zypper up
>
> During ref, zypper pauses to notify when pearsoncomputing.net is
> inaccessible. After answering ignore, zypper asks if the TDE repo should
> be
> disabled, to which my answer is always no. These happen twice, one pair
> for
> arch, one pair for noarch. So, it's routine that I notice, and am
> bothered,
> when it cannot be accessed. There's no easy way I've discovered to
> determine
> in advance whether to expect it to be accessible. Unlike
> http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ or
> http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/debian/, redirects typically inhibit or
> outright
> deny attempts to check availability.
>
> Most of my installations exist purely for testing purposes, used few hours
> per year. The machines on which they live need to be physically rotated in
> and out of workspace in order to be used. When any update is prevented by
> an
> inaccessible repo, progress halts, so I can't help but notice.
>
> This sort of begs the question: why isn't TDE mirrored in the places where
> we
> get our distributions and updates, major mirrors like kernel.org or
> gwdg.de
> or the various universities providing mirroring service? What would it
> take
> to make it happen?
> --
> "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
>
>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>
> Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

The actual TDE repositories are mirrored; you can select a mirror from
this list and pretty much ignore the rest of the TDE services if you want
to.

https://trinitydesktop.org/mirrorstatus.php

The only caveat is that occasionally we add / lose mirrors (after all, the
mirrors are being provided to us on the good will of other people /
organisations); you won't receive any notification if a mirror goes down
or goes stale.

Tim
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