So many missing package files [SOLVED]

GoldenMouse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 112

A few days ago, I issued `emerge netbeans` and have spent the time since hunting down file after file for portage, because it can't find them itself. The most recent one is owanttask-1.1-gentoo.tar.bz2. A lot of these files are coming up 404'd on all of the mirrors that portage attempts. I've been noticing this sort of thing for the past several months: I go to install a package and have to go find the file myself because it doesn't exist on the mirror anymore. Is anyone else running into this?

Oh, and for what it's worth, my `emerge netbeans` has left me with at least 25 packages in this state, where I have to track it down myself. One or two, I can deal with. 25? This is just getting ridiculous.

Arch is amd64.

sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania

"wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/owanttask-1.1-gentoo.tar.bz2", works here. Don't you use the gentoo mirrors?

GoldenMouse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 112

I have GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo". Switching it to ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/

...looks like it works! Phew! I was worried that stable was getting so little attention that it was starting to fall apart. Turns out, I just had a bad mirror.

Thanks!