could not connect to server

[UriZafrir]

Hi When using with Mac M1 and pressing the "all builds" button I get "could not connect to server it seems https://uupdump.net is not working.

[chadlwilson]

Not sure if its the same issue, but I always just get timeouts trying to load the "All builds..." list with 2.1.0 (4).

[chadlwilson]

Ahh, looks like UUPDump has been down for the last 2 weeks or so: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/16hci7n/is_uupdump_down_for_everyone/

There is https://www.uup.ee/ so I wonder if there is a way to point CrystalFetch at a different UUPDump site and/or a local instance.

[Kusanalee]

UUPDump is still down. There should be an option to use alternative uup sites.

[Kusanalee]

So I have tried to switch it out with UUP.ee - but that doesn't work because it doesn't have a json-api. I also tried uupdump.cn which does have a json-api but crystalfetch still spits out a "the data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format". I'm currently looking for other sources of UUPdump in hopes that it works.

[Helloyunho]

https://uupdump.net seems like permanently down now...

[Helloyunho]

https://uupdump.net seems like permanently down now...

You can download the whole website source from there and use the JSON API via the local network though hmmm... I think we need an option to select our own API endpoint URL

[chadlwilson]

After some hacking around with both the UUPDump JSON API and CrystalFetch (to change it to point to a local version of the API running in a Docker instance) I did get a setup running locally that allowed me to create an install iso.

I'll see if I can automate the UUPDump "distribution" stuff to make this work, and see if I can submit a PR to CrystalFetch to allow the UUPDump URL to be changed.

Broad steps (which needs more detail)

• Get UUPDump into the right state (PHP 8.2 won't work OOTB due to some deprecations/warnings)

  git clone git@github.com:uup-dump/json-api.git --depth=1
  cd json-api
  git submodule init && git submodule update
  git clone git@github.com:uup-dump/fileinfo.git --depth=1
  git clone git@github.com:uup-dump/packs.git --depth=1
  docker run -d -p 80:80 --name uupdump-json-api -v "$PWD":/var/www/html php:8.1-apache

• Download and build CrystalFetch per the README
• Change URL to http://127.0.0.1 https://github.com/TuringSoftware/CrystalFetch/blob/d0fbf0fe668c2966069d99e65fefc296d73b4bfd/Source/UUPDump/UUPDumpAPI.swift#L23
• Now it seems to all work and allow me to build ISOs.

[gedw99]

Is this the same thing ?

https://www.uupdump.cn/?lang=en-us

Seems to have various build of Windows OS, etc

[Kusanalee]

I tried using uupdump.cn, however that does not work (usually with an error about the network connection was lost). I'll try locally hosting it in docker to see if works.

[chadlwilson]

Yeah, it definitely works locally, although the data is slightly stale in uupdump's repos, so it's missing a few builds. Looks like the auto-updates of data into GitHub is also broken. e.g at time of writing it is missing this build.

This may reduce the usefulness of even running locally over time unless there are enough folks doing manual PRs. https://github.com/uup-dump/packs/commits/master https://github.com/uup-dump/fileinfo/commits/master

[chadlwilson]

My PR to allow this to be configured is at https://github.com/TuringSoftware/CrystalFetch/pull/32 - not much help since you'd still need to build locally unless merged/released and could as easily edit the URL in the code for your local use, but might be a starting point for someone who knows SwiftUI better than I 🙏

[Helloyunho]

Great news! About a week ago https://uupdump.net is open again! ...But as mentioned in #32 uupdump creates wrong iso for arm64