[Python-Dev] code.python.org - random 403 errors (original) (raw)

Sridhar Ratnakumar sridharr at activestate.com
Fri Apr 23 18:42:50 CEST 2010

On 2010-04-22, at 10:55 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

-On [20100423 02:48], Sridhar Ratnakumar (sridharr at activestate.com) wrote:

Ok, I setup a cron job to maintain an internal mirror of the above mentioned repositories in code.python.org. We'll do a "hg pull -u" (equivalent to "svn up") every hour; no clones. Hopefully, that should reduce the amount of requests from our side. Let me know if in future this issue repeats. Dirk Jan can probably correct me (or some other heavy Hg user) but for all I know you should indeed simply clone once and subsequently hg pull and from your local copy clone as you like. (At least that's also how http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mercurial/GettingStarted seems to aim at explaining.)

Since the "download Python source code" thing is just part of the ActivePython build script, and the Hudson build script deletes the "build/" directory of the previous build .. a clone was necessary. To fix this I ended up creating a "mirror" at a local site which mirror was maintained by an hourly 'hg pull -u'. The hudson build script still does a clone although from this local mirror URL.

(Incidentally, cloning from this mirror via the Apache index listing URL doesn't seem to work; gotta investigate why...)

-srid

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