[Solved]Need help in emerge sync .

gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

I am installing Gentoo in my virtual box. I am following the Gentoo handbook on their website.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base

When I use the command # emerge sync it shows me

The emerge --sync shows me >>> checking server time stamp .... time out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync .c (713) [Receiver=3.2.7]

>>> Retrying...

Please view the screenshot in the following link

https://ibb.co/pPNNrk3

https://ibb.co/7WyxTZK

Where is the issue and how may I fix it? please guide me.

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1392 Location: Germany

make sure you use a mirror close to you: https://www.gentoo.org/support/rsync-mirrors/ https://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/

The screenshots you made also looks like a sync was successfull. What happends if you advance in the handbook?
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gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

Thanks for your kind reply. Well i try to understand from the handbook but unable to fix my issue.
Yes it may be due to selecting the mirror which is not close to my region. Please guide me how may I select it.Suppose i am from Asia and china is close to me so how may I select it.which command may I use to switch to close mirrors?

I am on the installation phase in my virtualbox. In host machine I google and found command

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1392 Location: Germany

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Optional:_Selecting_mirrors

gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

Thanks "Banana" for your guidance. Well, I have tried different mirrors but all show the same results as I already pasted the screenshot.
I am middle of the installation process and have spent a lot of time but no success.

https://ibb.co/LPGNQ63

https://ibb.co/CK5xqy1

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2968

gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

So that mean I may proceed with my installation steps by ignoring it? Need your opinion?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:13 pm Post subject:

gardenair,

Portage mirrors, for ::gentoo and distfile mirrors are two different things.
They get confused because some sponsors off both services from the same servers.

mirrorselect is only for selecting distfile mirrors. It cannot help with mirrors for the ::gentoo repo.

::gentoo repo missers are controlled by the file

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:15 pm Post subject:

gardenair,

Yes' you can proceed. Your ::gentoo repo is populated. It may not be as up to date as emerge --sync would hove got you but its adequate.
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gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

Thanks " Neddy" for the reply. Before going ahead for my Gentoo I want to dig more that why emerge --sync is not working at this phase. It is a fault by Gentoo mirrors or something wrong from my own side ? If i proceed then what effect there will be at the end of installation because at the moment it is not working then after the installation the problem will remain same.
It should be noted that I am installing Gentoo Linux on my VirtualBox . There is no restriction,no firewall . DNS issue in the guest side ? So about about /etc/resol.conf
My own opinion says by using Gentoo as guest in Oracle VirtualBox there will be no issue like firewall or DNS .

As you have mentioned about rsync://rsync.cn.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ so how can I use it ? May I add it in by

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1392 Location: Germany

No, it is in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
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gardenair · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2021 Posts: 46

It just works...I repeat the same command " # emerge sync " many times and eventually, it works. So there is a big question why does it work now....? What is the magic behind it...? The servers were not working before or something else.

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:54 pm Post subject:

gardenair,

The ::gentoo repo, which is what emerge --sync updates, contains the instructions and packages available to you.
The master mirror is updated twice an hour. It's up to mirror admins how often they update their mirrors. Many are once a day.

If your emerge --sync fails, you won't have the very latest ::gentoo repo available to you. That won't matter much as Gentoo is a rolling release.
You don't install it and forget it, it needs to be updated at least once a month.

After 6 months updating may not be straight forward. After a year, expect to learn things about Gentoo that you will learn no other way.

If you are sharing an IPv4 connection behind NAT with other Gentoo systems trying to --sync, you may well fall foul of the connection limit.
Look at setting up your own mirror for that situation.
Then your mirror updates once a day and all consumers use that mirror. The outside world only sees one --sync per day.

To use a mirror of your choice, It goes into /etc/portage/repos.conf/ which may be a directory.

I have a file /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf which contains