Savannah is currently down (was: Re: GARNOME 2.18.0 -- "Oldschool Beats")

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Hi, some of the links seem to be down, (freetype was for me)

What does "some" mean?

As for freetype -- you are right, unfortunately. I checked, and it seems
to still be down. :/  GAR, how often can the stable master sites break?


NOTE: Savannah is currently down! [1]  This seems to affect both [2]
      flavors. Garballs with a temporarily broken download server are
      bootstrap/freetype and geektoys/mail-notification.

Freetype unfortunately is a hard dependency and will be built early.
However, there is an easy workaround.  cd bootstrap/freetype, and edit
the Makefile. Change the one line that starts with MASTER_SITES to read:

MASTER_SITES = http://dl.sourceforge.net/freetype/

This will fix the download issue and use an alternative server. To make
GARNOME more resistent to such failures, I'll add the additional
location in SVN.


[1] From http://gnu.org/:  "Savannah is currently experiencing technical
    difficulties related to a hardware failure. Stop by #savannah on
    irc.gnu.org for further announcements.

[2] savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org


> sinec I alredy have the latest freetype, whats the best way to say "this 
> package is alredy installed" ?

Since Joseph already answered this one, just an additional hint:  Please
check the archives and read the thread "gar.lib.mk still wrong" from
early this month. There are plans WRT external dependencies.

  guenther


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