kde-head Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 You may have noticed the easyurpmi.zarb.org has been down for several days now. In an attempt to find out what's been going , i came across this thread on usenet - they have moved to http://urpmi-addmedia.org direct link: http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=plf+za....invalid&rnum=2 Quote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 01:20:04 GMT, sandman wrote: > are they having troubs? I would say so. This from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ The easyurpmi PLF website is no longer MIRRORED here. They, Zarb.org/PLF, are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. This is the 4 th time in a week there site has been un-reachable. Email easyurpmi@zarb.org for complaints ATTENTION zarb.org DNS admin -- Remove the IP 63.230.134.21 from your dns entries. This site will be dead at 0600 GMT. Now if they want stable webhosting I'll offer it to them for free. But atleast be stable. This must frustrate users. Inculding backup email service which can be triggered by ETRN or delieved by que. zarb.org admin can email sgrayban AT borgnet.us for this access and setup. In the interest of the Mandrake Community............ Someone sent me a link for alternate site http://urpmi-addmedia.org [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 So I guess there should be a new link in the front of the MUSB to reflect this fact. I mean, easyurpmi is such an important webpage for any Mandrake users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 So I guess there should be a new link in the front of the MUSB to reflect this fact. I mean, easyurpmi is such an important webpage for any Mandrake users. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the moderators of MUSB should get in touch with the easyurpmi people first to confirm this - but it certainly appears so. i guess a lot of folks might not know about this just yet, as the zarb.org site comes up first on a google search for easyurpmi. If confirmed, it might be a good idea for MUSB to do a big splash announcement on the front page maybe , just to let as many folks know as possible. i honestly cant live without EasyURPMI - it really is a crucial service to mandrake users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 Without easy urpmi - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rider343 Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 Without easy urpmi - <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 Without easy urpmi - <{POST_SNAPBACK}> there is still debian with apt-get :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 Ehm, mandrake also has apt and yum, it's in contrib (I read somewhere). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 and, believe it or not, urpmi still works *even without easyurpmi*. YES IT'S TRUE! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 I've updated the links in the urpmi FAQ. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 (edited) Both sites are working now and it is past the deadline in the first post. Confusing! The new site also took a long time to load. Counterspy Edited December 20, 2004 by Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 There were hardware issues on zarb.org, now things are repaired and back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 This announcement did not come from those who work on easyurpmi, nor zarb. This sgrayban dude isnt mentioned anywhere within easyurpmi's site and if easyurpmi were going to move, you'd expect some forewarning. Easyurpmi seems to be maintained by someone named trem. Has he announced anything? Is there any reference to him in the new sites? No. I think it is someone attempting to hijack easyurpmi. It's past the deadline and the original site is still up and there is no announcement from the official owners of it. It's like when that fool signed up to the Xorg mailing list and announced Xorg6.8 released, when it had not been, in an attempt to bring it forward. spinynorman: could you change the FAQ links back until we hear an *official* response? iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 google cache of easyurpmi site: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:4aq...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 was the site hacked, defaced? certainly looks like some sort of hijacking going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 well take a look at what i've said, then take a look at the CVS repo: http://katu.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*...type=text/plain but where's the latest updates of this sgrayban bloke? trem is still mentioned throughout it, unlike sgrayban's sites who have no mentions whatsoever. doing a bit of googling and this guy doesnt seem to have had experience with mandrake before 10, and -- he was asking a few days ago how to deal with anonymous CVS, something trem has obviously already set up and you would expect he would know what to do. And his rpms suck: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=160104 You wouldnt expect the maintainer of easy-urpmi to add his repo if it may well be so buggy. Besides, plenty of people ahve their own personal repos, but tell me, how many have them added to easyurpmi? till this guy hijacked it - none. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 spinynorman: could you change the FAQ links back until we hear an *official* response?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Done. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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