emerge-webrsync, rsync and CVS

mark_p · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 24

I'm behind a firewall and the only outside access I have on my gentoo box is http/ftp/pop3.
The snapshots directory on the gentoo mirror sites don't update very often (at the moment the latest snapshot is from the 22nd.) and so emerge-webrsync is pretty out of date. I do have access to a machine (non-gentoo, Sun) which I can use CVS from. Is there a CVS repository of the portage tree I could sync with? Or failing that it might be possible to use rsync from it (I don't think I can though).

Alternatively is there anywhere else which keep regular frequent snapshots of the portage tree (the gentoo mirrors don't).

Thanks.

Mark

enrique · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Denmark

I'm also behind a firewall, so I'm in the same situation as mark_p. Are snapshots now only being released each week, or what is happening? Are there any unofficial sites with newer snapshots?
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Kind regards, enrique
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mark_p · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 24

The problem is not really as bad as I had thought. When I was checking for snapshots I only checked the ibiblio mirror (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/) and http://gentoo.linux.no/snapshots/ mirror.

It seems like the above two mirrors aren't keeping up to date - they still only have snapshots from the 21st. I found http://gentoo.linux.no/snapshots/ which has very recent snapshots.

Hope this helps,
Mark