guile-1.6.8

[Andeas Köhler]

Hi Tino,

Tino Gugger-Ruffer schrieb:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
>> Hi Tino,
>>
>> It would be nice if you could send us patches for those downloads not
>> working anymore, because once those packages are installed you usually
>> avoid downloading and compiling the stuff again and again.
>>
>> By patching defaults.sh right away centrally, you avoid that anyone
>> trying install.sh either gives up or finds his own way to solve the
>> problem.
> 
> As far as I think, install.sh tries to download packages from different sf-mirrors. Sometimes, files were not available on some of those mirrors. When I then ran install.sh again, it would try other mirrors and sometimes find the packages then. 
> I don't really know how the mechanism works, but that's how it looks to me. I wouldn't know how to fix this...
> 
> Anyway, after several tries I grew tired of it and searched for the required packages myself and installed them manually.
> 
> Hope that helps to find the problem,
> Tino
> 
> ps: I'm not sure I can find the logs anymore...

thanks for that information!

Do you think that changing from heanet to switch as default SF_MIRROR 
will help us?  I think that it does some sort of balancing of those 
servers actually serving the given file, but I simply do not know.

Ciao,
-- andi5