UIUC updates access removed (was Re: Trouble getting updates w/o Squeak)

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Thu Jul 3 22:57:07 UTC 2003


Am Donnerstag, 03.07.03 um 12:03 Uhr schrieb Bert Freudenberg:

> Am Dienstag, 01.07.03 um 18:45 Uhr schrieb Doug Way:
>
>>
>> Jazzmynn wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> It seems that I used to be able to access the updates via FTP 
>>> (ftp://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/updates/), but the last time this worked 
>>> was 2003-06-14 (change set 5269), and hasn't worked since.
>>
>>
>> This confirms something that I've suspected.  It seems that we no 
>> longer have anonymous ftp access to the updates portion of the UIUC 
>> site for some reason.  For example, go to ftp://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu in 
>> a browser and try to click on the "Squeak" link.  The other areas 
>> ("Smalltalk") which have the release builds etc still work.  Also, my 
>> admin account still seems to work, it's just anonymous logins that 
>> don't.
>>
>> This explains why people have been having trouble updating 3.5 
>> images, because we also changed the backup updates server after that 
>> (from squeaklet.com to squeakfoundation.org).  Fortunately the 
>> European updates site still works.
>
> Unfortunately, the European updates site is just an ftp mirror of the 
> UIUC archive. This mirroring was the reason to have FTP access to the 
> updates in the first place. Indeed, the last changeset here is 5269.
>
> So: What is the new Master update site? Can I get ftp access? It does 
> not have to be anonymuous, but you'd have to tell me the password then 
> ;-)

Update: I switched the mirroring to the Squeak foundation site. So 
updating from the European server should work now.

-- Bert



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