bug#47803: 27.1; GNU Elpa rsync service offline?

[Stefan Kangas]

Jair Wang <ldbeth@sdf.org> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> GNU ELPA used to provide rsync service at rsync://elpa.gnu.org/elpa/,
> however there seems to be a problem since 2020-12-26 that rsync fails to
> establish connection:
>
> $ rsync --list-only rsync://elpa.gnu.org/elpa/
> @ERROR: chroot failed
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1653) [Receiver=3.1.0]
>
> Could you please check the status of rsync deamon?
>
> The idea of providing rsync services seems from one admin at
> elpa.emacs-china.org. He's not been active for a while, and I'm starting
> to take over his position recently since many users has complained about
> the mirror for GNU ELPA has been out of sync for a while.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jair Wang.

Copying in Stefan Monnier, who might know something about this.