[Bug/Support]: workaround for when savannah is down/unresponsive

[mahmoodsh36]

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Elpaca Version

master

Operating System

linux

Description

i was trying to update my packages when i found out some of them were failing to build, but then realized savannah is returning 429 errors

Warning (elpaca): Unable to read GNU-devel ELPA package file: (error "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/elpa-packages responded with status 429")

i reckon we could get around this by using mirrors and modifying the urls elpaca-menu-elpas to point to mirrors instead of savannah itself, but im not sure how to go about doing it, help is appreciated.
for reference, a related issue was open for doom/straight.el: doomemacs/doomemacs#7171.
thank you.

[progfolio]

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Elpaca Version

master

Operating System

linux

Description

i was trying to update my packages when i found out some of them were failing to build, but then realized savannah is returning 429 errors

Yes. They've temporarily disabled cgit browsing due to abuse.

i reckon we could get around this by using mirrors and modifying the urls elpaca-menu-elpas to point to mirrors instead of savannah itself, but im not sure how to go about doing it, help is appreciated.

In general, this is how the URLs can be changed for the ELPA package specs by a user.
Note this should be done before the menu is used for any lookups.
Otherwise an elpaca-update-menus would need to be run for the affected menus.

  (require 'elpaca-menu-elpa)
  (setf (alist-get 'packages-url (alist-get 'gnu elpaca-menu-elpas))
        "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs/elpa.git;a=blob_plain;f=elpa-packages;hb=HEAD"
        (alist-get 'packages-url (alist-get 'nongnu elpaca-menu-elpas))
        "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs/nongnu.git;a=blob_plain;f=elpa-packages;hb=HEAD"))

The mirrors would have to point at the package specs.
A workaround for the time being is to use the gitweb interface in the example above, which I've made the default on latest version of Elpaca.
No change should be necessary on your end after upgrading.
Testing is appreciated.

[deejayem]

The mirrors would have to point at the package specs. A workaround for the time being is to use the gitweb interface in the example above, which I've made the default on latest version of Elpaca. No change should be necessary on your end after upgrading. Testing is appreciated.

The issue has been resolved for me with the latest version.