ooopackages.good-day.net dead?

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 28 11:17:01 PST 2006


On 12/28/06, Jason Morgan <jwm at sentinelchicken.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 06:40:21PM +0100, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> > "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 12/28/06, Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On 12/28/06, Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >> >> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > On 12/28/06, Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >> >> >> Hi,
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> all subfolders are gonne:
> > >> >> >> <ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD>
> > >> >> >> What is going on there?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Somebody wants to start using bittorrent, but no, p2p is
> > >> >> > evil, don't you know? :-)
> > >> >>
> > >> >> -vv please
> > >> >
> > >> > For as long as I remember it took ages (or more) to download
> > >> > OOo packages (and sources), but as soon as anyone pointed
> > >> > towards p2p he got shot on the spot because p2p is supposedly
> > >> > ruining the Internet.
> > >>
> > >> Oh. It is realy unbelivable, that there is no hint, no link, no
> > >> message abot that on ooopackages.good-day.net :-(
> > >>
> > >> Okay, I will use bittorerent
> > >> But from where I'll get the latest OOo packages?
> > >
> > > Nowhere, that's the point :-) The official OO.org site
> > > only has the source distribution to offer via p2p. Get
> > > that and 5-20 hours later you'll have a package,
> >
> >
> > Sorry, but i cannot believe that.
> >
> > At 2006/Dec/21 there whre new packages, see
> > http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd
> >
> > Why the hell should it all to be gone seven days later - without any
> > hint?

Don't get me wrong, I only think Maho has some temporary
difficulties. I'm sure he'll make the packages available
as soon as possible.

> Can you use the packages on the FreeBSD ftp server?
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD

They are usually quite outdated. I can only see a 2.0.4
package for 6.2. You can use that, of course, it's not
that old.


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