No, it's down due to an insane traffic load. It'll be up as soon as either a) traffic gets less insane (not likely to happen soon) or b) BigBoss adds more capacity. I'd also suggest to just keep trying: it'll likely work to install just that if you just keep trying to download it (eventually).
Does anyone know how Cydia licensing actually works? I jailbroke just to install RetinaPad, and I managed to buy it and install it. Cydia says "Package Officially Purchased". RetinaPad says "RetinaPad license missing!" and doesn't work. I guess the license download failed or something (due to high load?) but I don't see how to fix it.
It really makes me appreciate the Apple App Store, to be honest.
All Cydia Store purchases go through SaurikIT's centralized payment processing server. When the user attempts installing a store package, the repo that hosts it queries the central licensing server to see if the device is authorized before returning the package. Some packages make additional calls after the package has been installed on the device to download a license.
It is this final step that was failing intermittently on my servers due to the insane load (~300x usual sales on this package, ~125x traffic load overall). Please give it a try now, I have verified that it is up.
Thanks! Interesting. It still isn't working, after uninstalling / reinstalling in Cydia, but I guess I'll give it a day or too. Is the Authorize button in RetinaPad supposed to actually do something?
Seems that results for the bigboss repository aren't being returned in Cydia, and the repo backend isn't responding to requests. http://apt.thebigboss.org/onepackage.php?bundleid=pdfpatch2
Anyone else thinking the bigboss repo (only source of the pdf patcher 2, as far as I can tell) is being kept down on purpose?