Freetype Host doesn't seem to have the freetype repo mirrored anymore.

[AElimrani]

The default FREETYPE_HOST in setup-build-freetype.py seems to not host the file anymore. https://mirrors.sarata.com/non-gnu/freetype/

[AElimrani]

probably temporary though it seems to have been down everytime I have tried accessing it in recent days

[HinTak]

This is a bit wrong - it should use one of the official places, which is savannah, gitlab.freedesktop, or github. Cc @madig why did you use the odd sarata mirror?

[HinTak]

There is an official mirror here, https://github.com/freetype/freetype, which links to new gitlab freedesktop place.

[AElimrani]

Yes this is the reason for originally opening the issue; the mirror was not familiar and it was not working but then I figured that downtime isn't worthy of an issue and the uncommon mirror might have been chosen for a reason. Since the FREETYPE_HOST seems to be used to get binaries, I just changed it locally to this: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ . But looking at other mirrors it does seem like freetype was not available everywhere (the GNU mirrors at berkeley, uwaterloo and others don't seem to host freetype releases or code, so maybe that's why the current mirror was chosen? )

[HinTak]

Freedesktop is the current official upstream, and github is also an official mirror monitored/maintained by upstream people. Hence I am asking @madig why he chose that particular one (and also not using one of the others, even if savannah may be unreliable).

[AElimrani]

Ah you are right, I thought it was also used to get compiled binary packages (not available on gitlab), but it isn't.

[madig]

I don't remember and it's possible I just grabbed the first host I saw. Change as needed.