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Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#11

Post by rvz »

Oh dear, Last time this happened was 11 days ago when more than just packages went down. [0] Perhaps relying and going all in on GitHub doesn't seem to be good in the long run. Especially GitHub Actions.

This is where OpenAI is now feeling the effects of instability [1] on Azure since their recent outage. I expect them to also have issues like GitHub has every month.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843748

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34958375

Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#12

Post by jbergknoff »

rvz wrote: post #11

Oh dear, Last time this happened was 11 days ago when more than just packages went down. [0] Perhaps relying and going all in on GitHub doesn't seem to be good in the long run. Especially GitHub Actions. This is where OpenAI is now feeling the effects of instability [1] on Azure since their recent outage. I expect them to also have issues like GitHub has every month. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843748…

Packages had an incident two days ago, also: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/sn4m3hkqr4vz. I noticed it when a Terraform provider download was failing, citing a 404 from objects.githubusercontent.com.

Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#14

Post by kreco »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #9
bin_bash wrote: post #4

FYI: this breaks homebrew

I think it will break any of the open source package managers that rely on GitHub's proprietary hosting and distribution. Cargo, etc.

I did not know package managers relied on Github, this is the most unwise thing to do from a package manager perspective.

Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build.

Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#16

Post by bin_bash »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #9
bin_bash wrote: post #4

FYI: this breaks homebrew

I think it will break any of the open source package managers that rely on GitHub's proprietary hosting and distribution. Cargo, etc.

no, this is GitHub packages, not GitHub repositories. Cargo doesn't use this. It doesn't use GitHub repositories either, they store the crates internally.

EDIT: I was wrong, the crates index does use a GitHub repo

Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#18

Post by chisquared »

kreco wrote: post #14
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it will break any of the open source package managers that rely on GitHub's proprietary hosting and distribution. Cargo, etc.

I did not know package managers relied on Github, this is the most unwise thing to do from a package manager perspective. Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build.

> Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build.

GitHub redirects you to the new name in the event of a rename and you look up the old one.

Re: GitHub Packages Is Down

#20

Post by crabbone »

kreco wrote: post #14
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it will break any of the open source package managers that rely on GitHub's proprietary hosting and distribution. Cargo, etc.

I did not know package managers relied on Github, this is the most unwise thing to do from a package manager perspective. Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build.

Hello and welcome to PEP-508!

In Python, we don't say "we don't host packages on a proprietary platform", we say "we have absolutely no clue where they are hosted and nobody audits them anyways, and we don't enforce package signing, and we'll just build from source with no build isolation what so ever, unless you remember to specify an obscure command-line option when installing... and have a nice day!"

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