[tex-live] pst-ode

[Robin Fairbairns]

Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:

> During today update (a new package) pst-ode failed and attempts to
> install it failed either
> 
> auto-install: pst-ode (27431) [110k] ... Downloading
>    http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/pst-ode.tar.xz
> did not succeed, please retry.
> TLPDB::_install_package: couldn't unpack
> http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/pst-ode.tar.xz
> to /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist
> tlmgr: couldn't install new package pst-ode
> 
> and attempts to install it failed either
> 
> % tlmgr install pst-ode
> tlmgr: package repository
> http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
> [1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: pst-ode [110k]
> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>   404 Not Found
> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!Retrying with wget.
> Downloading
>    http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/pst-ode.tar.xz
> did not succeed, please retry.
> TLPDB::_install_package: couldn't unpack
> http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/pst-ode.tar.xz
> to /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist
> tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log

are you on sabbatical (or holiday) in the uk?  if not, why on earth are
you using a uk mirror?

whatever, tl does indeed have pst-ode

  107204 Aug 17 03:45 archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/pst-ode.doc.tar.xz
    4584 Aug 17 03:45 archive/systems/texlive/

but it arrived at most 4 hours ago; thus it's not surprising that the
oxford mirror doesn't have the package:

> http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
> [1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: pst-ode [110k]
> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>   404 Not Found
> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!

note that "Not Found" (it's for real: oxford really doesn't have the
package).  mirrors are declared "failing" if they fall behind 24-hour
update-to-date-ness (as it were); oxford's nowhere near that, on this
metric.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team