[racket] Package server connection flaky?

FWIW, I see no downtime in my logs.

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to update my Racket checkout and it's getting stuck on
> the `raco pkg update -a` phase of the Makefile.
>
> It's failed something like 9 times in a row for me with errors of the
> following form:
>
>   tcp-connect: connection failed
>     detail: host not found
>     address: pkgs.racket-lang.org
>     port number: 80
>     step: 1
>     system error: Name or service not known; errno=-2
>     context...:
>
> I've had errors like this before when trying to build Docker images for
> Racket. I would start out with a minimal Racket and then try to install
> all of the main distribution packages via the network. It would usually
> fail with a tcp-connect error like this.
>
> In the Docker case, I gave up and used a git checkout of all the
> packages and installed them locally.
>
> Can we improve reliability of the package server for this use case or
> alternatively set up a meta-repo of all the main distribution packages
> (that can be checked out at once) to avoid this kind of thing?
>
> Cheers,
> Asumu
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