Is riscos.info repository acting up?

Hi,
for some reason my !PackMan is having troubles to find packages from riscos.info.

This is on a fresh RISC OS installation, so nothing cached yet, so, if you check on yours you may not necessarly see the problem, JFYI.

Autobuilt manifest appears empty:
http://www.riscos.info/packages/pkg/autobuilt

I have noticed this yesterday trying to install GCC on my new RISC OS system.

The front page has been giving “503 Service unavailable” or “Too many connections (localhost)” for several days.

A handful of static pages can still be reached – for example the RPCEmu mailing list archive is available – but in general the site is very poorly at the moment.

Ok, thanks Stuart!

Been away for work for a while and just started to get back on RISC OS stuff over the weekend, so I had no idea it was going on by a while.

Hopefully it’ll be sorted soon.

Cheers.

Hello,

I’m glad I saw this. I’ve just started using RiscOS last week and wasn’t having any luck getting GCC and related packages installed, but was afraid I was just a dunce.

Thanks.

Hello, and welcome Clay. No, not the best start for you I guess, it’s the first time I’ve encountered a problem accessing the packages. Hopefully, it’ll be back to normal soon.

In the meantime, Clay, if you haven’t already done so, you can download RISC OS Direct over at the RISC OS Developments website. That includes a load of development tools including GCC all ready to go. Obviously downloading them “properly” would be even better, but in the meantime, it should allow you to explore developing with GCC on RISC OS.

www.riscosdev.com/direct

It should be fully compatible with any ROMs/software you download here, as it is just a more extensive edition of RISC OS, with more pre-prepared/installed software.

Enjoy RISC OS!

Thank you both for the welcome. I will download RISC OS Direct soon and give it a try.

Has there been any news on what happened to the riscos.info site?

Also, as a new user, where is the best place to ask beginner questions when I can’t find an existing solution?

Thanks again!

You’re welcome. The best place to ask beginner questions- I’d stick my questions in the Community Support section here.

There’s also a friendly GCC email support group here and a couple of handcrafted beginner playlists- ROD and ROOL

Here’s a handy forum guide.

Have fun!

Some of the internals of riscos.info are still present, including gcc downloads

This is the full GCC and its dependencies download in unpackaged form, gccsdk-gcc-bin-4.7.4-Rel6.zip

make is not included but we can worry about that later if it is needed.

Also, as a new user, where is the best place to ask beginner questions when I can’t find an existing solution?

Hi Clay, as a new user, if you fancy a complimentary issue of Archive, the magazine for RISC OS users, I’ll pop one in the post to you. It has a range of articles, hints and tips, and other items that may help you along. Send me your address to gavin@archivemag.co.uk if you’re interested.

Is it still Theo Markettos who looks after riscos.info? I might send a quick e-mail to see what’s up.

Thanks to all!

And, Gavin, I’ll take you up on that offer. I’ll send you an email shortly.

It’s back.

Thanks, Rob.

It’s back.

True, the site is up, and probably being gradually restored. No pre-built riscos.info packages are in Packman just yet, as the auto-built manifest is still empty.

The Package manifests have materialised, and I did a quick test, the GCC packages are now available again from !PackMan.

Thank you! Theo? :)

I’ve finally got back to setting up my system, now that it’s the weekend.

So far everything is working great. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!

I really appreciate all the assistance.

My Packman refused to upgrade OmniClient and a few other applications saying “missing cache file for package OmniClient (2.33)”. Version 2.33 is the current version whereas mine is 2.32.

My Packman refused to upgrade OmniClient and a few other applications saying “missing cache file for package OmniClient (2.33)”. Version 2.33 is the current version whereas mine is 2.32.

Which repository sources have you enabled?

Which repository sources have you enabled?

It’s probably important that the general users know what to enable/disable. The lack of repository access¹ can be a showstopper in many cases.

¹ A recent event I worked at had no program, just a beer list via an app.
Not much use having a QR that pointed at the app download link when the users were in a different region and thus no access to the single app-store it was available from…

It’s probably important that the general users know what to enable/disable.

Indeed.

In this case sounds like an issue with the ROOL repository, or some apps that have a specific dependecy to that repo, but I could be wrong…

Perhaps Packman should indicate which repositories it is using and which are responding?

Perhaps Packman should indicate which repositories it is using and which are responding?

This is a question for Alan :)

A more off-the-cuff idea that may or may not be viable.

Packman is working again now, not that I have done anything. It looks as if it was a repository problem.

It looks as if it was a repository problem.

Yup, often is just a repository issue.