emerge system fails on ncompress [solved]

[spike666]

I've been following the handbook for installation and got to the point where I must emerge system, but I get:

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Error in server response, closing control connection.

and the emerge fails. The package it's trying to grab is ncompress-4.2.4

I left the emerge going when I left work for the new years weekend, and thought maybe the network was down or something, but I can successfully ping the ftp server, so I don't know what's up.

any ideas?

EDIT:

Nevermind, I got it working. I commented out the mirrorselect result in /etc/make.conf

[k4hlid]

thank you so much, this had me stumped for ages and there was no reply in the chat rooms either!! ahh thank you thank you!!!