From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T02:52:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem install error

> I've seen this on a few gems over the past few days, too, on 
> several Gems.  
> I just got the same error as above, then immediately reissued 
> the command  
> and got calibre-basicobject-1.0.0 (+ facets-2005.10.30) 
> installed. I'd say  
> it happened roughly one in four times I used Gems over the 
> past week, but  
> only once persisted for more than a moment.
> 
> I wonder if one of the mirrors has lost some files or 
> something (with it  
> being a 404) ?

It's odd... because the files are just rsync'd from one machine to
another and then a mirror is selected via a RewriteMap [1].  I just
manually hit all the mirrors and they seem to be fine... but something
must be going awry somewhere. 

Anyhow, thanks for the additional data!

Yours,

Tom

[1]
http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2005/11/faster_rubyforg.htm
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