Mirrors not updating w/ current rsync?

handsomepete

Sorry if I missed a blatant announcement or post (I searched! Really!), but am I the only one getting an updated portage tree (including things like xmame 0.60.1 and the nvidia 2960 drivers)? The mirrors haven't updated to these yet as far as I can see. They all say 404 not found...

lx · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 6:30 pm Post subject:

If they're not on the mirror servers, the source will be downloaded from the original side, can't put every source on the mirror server. So if it ain't their, too bad, but it ain't a problem. :wink:

Got nvidia 2960 installed without a problem, don't even noticed it wasn't on ibiblio and that it downloaded from the original side; well mirror can be nice for speed and also when a site is temporarly unreachable.
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klieber · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 6:37 pm Post subject:

I noticed the same problem. Seems kind of odd, I admit. My understanding was that Gentoo was supposed to mirror all of the sources on ibiblio -- maybe it's just taking a while for the source trees to sync up.

emerge will try to use multiple mirrors -- just list as many as you'd like in your /etc/make.conf file under the GENTOO_MIRRORS setting. (you can get a list of mirrors on the front page of gentoo.org) I've been able to work around the problem simply by defining two or three mirrors in my make.conf file. (as a last resort, emerge will also try to download the source from the SRC_URI defined in the actual ebuild.)

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handsomepete · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 7:16 pm Post subject:

Well, I have *every* mirror defined in there (which could be part of my problem - I get too impatient to wait it out and a couple of them seem to hang). I put it down to no mirrors and it did as stated above - downloaded from the homepage. A couple of the mirrors seem to be out of commission (flash.net and freesoftware.com), but none of the mirrors appear to be updated (at least w/ xmame, fluxbox 0.1.9 and nvidia drivers).

klieber · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 7:51 pm Post subject:

lx · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 8:35 pm Post subject:

frik · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 1

Changed my GENTOO_MIRRORS to "" and it also worked, thanks HandsomePete

However I've looked on the Gentoo bugs list and it doesn't seem to have been reported ? Does anybody know if there is a bug report ? Bugzilla interface is fairly horrible so I might just not be using it correctly.

Frik