Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

[Ludovic Courtès]

Bob Proulx <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Bob Proulx skribis:
>> >   -r--r--r--+ 1 civodul guix 1243780406 Apr 19 11:07 index.html,v
>> >
>> > Oh my goodness.  That is a very large rcs file!
>> 
>> We have a solution to this problem (we no longer need the 7 MiB
>> index.html \o/),
>
> Yes.  Yay!  :-)
>
>> but now I can neither update nor remove index.html: CVS
>> fails out with “cannot allocate memory” on the server side.
>
> Right.  Same problem.  It a very large rcs file.
>
>> Could you nuke it somehow?  (History doesn’t matter.)
>
> It's gone.  (I moved it out of the way.)

Great, thanks!

So what we have now is a low-tech solution that has the advantage of not
requiring users to run JavaScript code and not requiring special
server-side support:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/

>> Also, it might be related, but updates to one the Guix web site CSS
>> files fail to lead to an update on the web site.  That is:
>
> I will lazily say that I believe that to be the same problem but this
> time on the www.gnu.org web site side of things where I can't look at
> it.
>
>> This works fine, but several hours later:
>> 
>>   wget -q -O - http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/static/base/css/packages.css 
>> |head
>> 
>> ... is still showing me the old version of the file.
>> 
>> Ideas?
>
> That large index.html,v file is gone now.  I triggered an update.  Did
> it update?

It did!

We’re all set now.

Thank you, Bob!

Ludo’.