What happened to Packman?

F_style · May 16, 2011, 5:12am

I did a small search first, and actually I expected to see something about this in the openSUSE news. Anyway, does someone know what happened to Packman? It went offline again, and when trying to browse their site it says there’s no website anymore.

Thanks.

malcolmlewis · May 16, 2011, 5:17am

Hi
Yup, one of the mirrors has gone… see here;
packman.unixheads.com down for the count

please_try_again · May 16, 2011, 5:21am

It is down. I wrote a kind of workaround script: updaterepos - skipping repos that are down and allowing multiple urls

johnvv · May 16, 2011, 5:57am

i just switched to a different mirror
this was not the first time unixheads went down

malcolmlewis · May 16, 2011, 6:09am

Hi
True, however this time it’s gone for good

inozemcew · May 25, 2011, 7:35am

Does anybody know why most of the games has gone from packman? Just a few chess clones remains there. Almost every game has got ‘This package has no releases.’ and no explanations why the releases disappeared or when they’ll be back.

caf4926 · May 25, 2011, 7:45am

Are you using the top dir in Packman, as opposed to Essentials?
I don’t use games really so I am not sure what you should have

There is a OBS games repo
You’ll find that in Yast’s community list

malcolmlewis · May 25, 2011, 2:05pm

Hi
AFAIK it’s limited resources, if it’s not proprietary or GPL’d and can
be built on the openSUSE Build Service, if it’s not there, create an
openFATE or ask the games repository owners if they could build it…

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inozemcew · May 26, 2011, 10:12am

Just look at that. Can you find any packages in games that have no letters ‘chess’ in their names?

Thanks, I know about that. There is not even a third of that was in Packman.

I don’t quite understand you. What does mean ‘limited resources’? Packman’s servers has limited resources, so games was needed to be removed? Or that was licensing issue?
There is an ‘Old packages’ page in Packman’s wiki where all those packages are listed. Why they all became obsolete at once I couldn’t find, because most of the wiki written in german.

martin_helm · May 26, 2011, 12:26pm

inozemcew wrote:

>
> malcolmlewis Wrote:
>> AFAIK it’s limited resources
> I don’t quite understand you. What does mean ‘limited resources’?
> Packman’s servers has limited resources, so games was needed to be
> removed? Or that was licensing issue?
> There is an ‘Old packages’ page in Packman’s wiki where all those
> packages are listed. Why they all became obsolete at once I couldn’t
> find, because most of the wiki written in german.
>
When I look into the category Spiele/Spass (games/fun) I can see that
whatever package description I click the package was not updated for about
half a year and that it is mentioned that it has no released packages. So
this tends to support malcolmlewis comment about missing resources (man
power or server resources?). For sure it is not about licenses, the games I
see are almost all GPL.

If you want an authoritative answer contact the packman people, it is the
only way to overcome any speculation.

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ken_yap · May 26, 2011, 2:56pm

Maybe he ran away with Packwoman? rotfl!

martin_helm · May 26, 2011, 3:11pm

ken yap wrote:

>
> Maybe he ran away with Packwoman? rotfl!
>
lol

malcolmlewis · May 26, 2011, 3:46pm

Hi
Server resources for building, the preference is if it can be built on the openSUSE Build Service then use that. But as martin_helm say contact the mailing list, someone may add it back in.