[oi-dev] DLC_ARCHIVE_MIRROR userland-fetch

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Sat Oct 4 09:31:56 UTC 2025


Am 04.10.25 um 10:56 schrieb stes--- via oi-dev:
> Currently the http://squeakvm.org/ is up.
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> However Squeak / Smalltalk-80 is an old project and the squeak VM sometimes still gets updates, but not so many.
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> squeakvm.org may be down in the future ...
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> The "userland-fetch" is used to fetch a source archive from a local archives directory or from
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> DLC_ARCHIVE_MIRROR = https://dlc.openindiana.org/oi-userland/source-archives
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> I believe that in the past it was NOT visible to see which source archives are on the dlc.openindiana.org server.
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> Currently when I open the link
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> https://dlc.openindiana.org/oi-userland/source-archives/squeak-src-3835.tar.bz2
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> I can download the squeak sources from dlc.openindiana.org.
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> Also the list of source archives on https://dlc.openindiana.org/oi-userland/source-archives is public visible.
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> Is this intentional ?
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> By this I mean, is it intentional that the list of source archives for OpenIndiana is public ?
Sure. The source files are just copies from the original download 
locations. Our fallback mechanism wouldn't work without that. It has 
been introduced a couple of years ago because some source files have 
vanished in the past.



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