Chris,

I believe it should be snapshot.debian.org not snapshot.debian.net as
snapshot has become an official debian service. Why they didn't keep a
redirect alive or at least report a 301 permanently relocated I do not
know.

Nickd.

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: balloon-bounces@balloonboard.org 
> [mailto:balloon-bounces@balloonboard.org] On Behalf Of Chris Jones
> Sent: 09 March 2011 11:00
> To: Balloon
> Subject: [Balloon] Problem building buildroot, and workaround
> 
> I've been trying to build the Balloon software this morning 
> and have come across a problem with buildroot. It wants to 
> download some files from snapshot.debian.net. That site is 
> currently not accepting connections, so buildroot hangs on 
> more or less forever trying to access it.
> 
> I worked around the problem by hand-hacking the file 
> build/buildroot/buildroot-2010.11/package/fakeroot/fakeroot.mk
> 
> and changing the variable FAKEROOT_SITE to point to 
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20080427T000000Z/poo
> l/main/f/fakeroot/
> 
> It all seems to work then. I have no idea whether this is a 
> Debian problem, a buildroot problem, or something we can fix.
> 
> Chris
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