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From: "Benn Newman" <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources timeout
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:48:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae9679470703131548v63d2c62cof81804faab220a95@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2177a27d2f5f7bd735b0c0190d1691a0@plan9.bell-labs.com>

While sources is up, the sources website is still down.

As an example of how terrible this is, Donald Knuth cannot read the
semi-humorous README file I wrote about using the Computer Modern
typeface with troff(1).

<http://cm.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/btdn/lib/cm/README>
-- 
Benn Newman

On 12/03/07, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Sources is back up with files as of Mar 9 00:00.
>
> We had accidentally filled the venti arenas by copying new 9.tgz and
> plan9.tar.bz2 into /n/sources/extra each night without the temporary
> bit set (chmod +t).  That's now fixed and we've added a third arena
> partition.
>
> The sources fossil was damaged, so we reinitialised it from the Mar 9
> 00:00 dump.  Any patches or contributions submitted after that time
> should be resubmitted.  Sorry.
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-13 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 16:43 Philip Dye
2007-03-12 16:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-03-12 20:53   ` geoff
2007-03-13 22:48     ` Benn Newman [this message]
2007-03-14  4:36       ` lucio
2007-03-14 20:19         ` geoff
2007-03-14 20:25           ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-14 20:25           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-03-14 20:53             ` geoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-12 16:03 Philip Dye
2007-03-12 16:10 ` Russ Cox

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