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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