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    <p>The 'bash download_mirror.sh' step seems to be very fragile. 
      e.g. this morning I tried to start fresh and it failed at several
      points.</p>
    <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
        New""><tt>   ------ using kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7 to
          search kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.src.rpm ------</tt><br>
        <tt>   --> run: sudo -E yumdownloader -q -C --source
          kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7</tt><br>
        <tt>   Looking for kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.src.rpm</tt><br>
        <tt>   No source RPM found for kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64</tt><br>
        <tt>   Nothing to download</tt><br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <tt>    ------ using epel-rpm-macros-7-18 to search
          epel-rpm-macros-7-18.noarch.rpm ------</tt><br>
        <tt>   --> run: sudo -E yumdownloader -q -C
          epel-rpm-macros-7-18 --archlist=noarch,x86_64</tt><br>
        <tt>   Looking for epel-rpm-macros-7-18.noarch.rpm...</tt><br>
        <tt>   No Match for argument epel-rpm-macros-7-18</tt><br>
        <tt>   Nothing to download</tt></span></p>
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    <p>and the tarball downloads failed on.</p>
    <p><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">   --2018-07-11 13:13:28--  <a
href="http://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd.git/snapshot/fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.g">
http://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd.git/snapshot/fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.g</a></span></tt><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
        <tt>   Resolving git.infradead.org (git.infradead.org)...
          198.137.202.133, 2607:7c80:54:e::133</tt><br>
        <tt>   Connecting to git.infradead.org
          (git.infradead.org)|198.137.202.133|:80... connected.</tt><br>
        <tt>   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK</tt><br>
        <tt>   Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]</tt><br>
        <tt>   Saving to:
          'fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.gz'</tt><br>
        <br>
        <tt>   2018-07-11 13:14:34 (0.00 B/s) -
          'fd5c78694f3f1c875e293de7a641ba8a3d60d00d.tar.gz' saved [0]</tt><br>
        <br>
        <tt>   tar: This does not look like a tar archive</tt><br>
        <br>
        <tt>   gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: Child returned status 1</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now</tt><br>
        <tt>   mv: cannot stat 'linux-tpmdd-fd5c786/drivers/char/tpm':
          No such file or directory</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: tpm: Cannot stat: No such file or directory</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors</tt><br>
        <tt>   /localdisk</tt><br>
        <tt>   tss2-930.tar.gz</tt><br>
        <tt>   /localdisk/output/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/downloads /localdisk</tt><br>
        <tt>   ./tarball-dl.sh: line 156: git: command not found</tt><br>
        <tt>   ./tarball-dl.sh: line 157: pushd: ibmtpm20tss-tss: No
          such file or directory</tt><br>
        <tt>   ./tarball-dl.sh: line 158: git: command not found</tt><br>
        <tt>   /localdisk</tt><br>
        <tt>   mv: cannot stat 'ibmtpm20tss-tss': No such file or
          directory</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: tss2-930: Cannot stat: No such file or directory</tt><br>
        <tt>   tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors</tt><br>
        <tt>   ./tarball-dl.sh: line 165: popd: directory stack empty</tt></span></p>
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    <p>Is this really going to be our default operating mode?   Never
      knowing, day by day, when the next package will be dropped from an
      upstream source.  Is it possible for strarlingX to host it's own
      mirrors... of at least the needed subset of packages?<br>
    </p>
    <p>Scott</p>
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