Build failure on ppc : I am just so unlucky?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 19:25 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Here is what I got for synergy :
> 
> [...]
> ---> Downloading header for mkinitrd to pack into transaction set.
> http://newmirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/Fedora/RPMS/mkinitrd-4.2.12-1.ppc.rpm:
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:27:58 GMT
> Content-Length: 345 Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: text/html
> Server: lighttpd/1.3.13
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/mkinitrd-4.2.12-1.ppc.rpm from core: [Errno
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
> 
> ERROR: Could not get build-minimal
> 
> Could it be that the server was still syncing the ppc devel files? Last
> time I tried to build synergy, I got bitten by the timeout caused by the
> FC4test downloads, and now this :-(
> 
> Seth : Wouldn't it be a good thing to sync locally the relevant trees on
> each build machine? ...and do it at a time of the day when the devel tree
> is known to have finished syncing? (if that was the cause)

That'd be great - you got 26GB of disk space to share?

-sv