[Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge NitrOS-9 and Toolshed Repo's broken

[eric at canales.me]

I think sourceforge was sold and the new owners have turned things around. https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83105.html

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From: Kevin Becker
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 9:26 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge NitrOS-9 and Toolshed Repo's broken

I stay as far from sourceforge as possible but unfortunately there are
several retro-computing projects that keep me reluctantly coming back.

> On May 5, 2018, at 8:42 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 05 May 2018 19:45:56 Tormod Volden wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 05 May 2018 16:00:24 David Ladd wrote:
>>>> Ok just thought I would post a update.  Seems the repos are showing
>>>> up now.  What is up with SourceForge these days?
>>>
>>> I tried to warn about sourceforge shortly after they were bought,
>>> but no one wanted to hear it. Get nitros9 off the there and inspect
>>> every file for malware insertions.
>>
>> Gene,
>>
>> That was the previous owners. SourceForge is in much better hands now,
>> since it was sold to Slashdot Media two years ago. They still struggle
>> with some infrastructure issues and migrations from time to time
>> though.
>>
>> For the record, source repositories and project web sites like ours
>> were never affected by malware, only some binary downloads (especially
>> from abandoned projects) were wrapped inside "download tools" by the
>> ridiculous people who ran it at the time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tormod
>
> I am one another mailing list, and they were complaining about possibly
> contaminated files earlier today. They are still taking inventory after
> about a 20 hour outage of their repo's (2 that were named) in the night
> last night, so I won't name names until its found to be bad for sure.
>
>
>
>
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