Emerge cannot find portage-2.0.50-r8

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OhSh33t · Post by **OhSh33t** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:58 pm

I did an "emerge sync" last night. Then "emerge -uDvp world". I get to the portage download and it keeps trying and retrying mirror after mirror.. but can't find portage-2.0.50-r8. Im currently at portage-2.0.50-r7.
Is this a problem on my end or is something going on with Portage? Heh.. Heh..

Not really knowing what to do I thought of atleast changing the "Timeout" of 180 secs to something smaller like 30, in make.conf thinking that this would cycle through my list of mirrors quicker..

It still defaults to 3 retries and 180 seconds? I don't get it. I added the values in the make.conf.example to make.conf and adjusted them. Why is emerge still using the defaults even after I have adjusted them. Yes they're uncommented..

Its like it doesn't even recognize the values?

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RSYNC_TIMEOUT=30
RSYNC_RETRIES="2"

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:37 pm

you changed the timeout for rsync, not for wget (that's in FETCHCOMMAND).

Ravenium · Post by **Ravenium** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:15 pm

I'm still wondering where -r8 went. 6-8 mirrors now and can't find it either. Not the end of the world, but annoying

OhSh33t · Post by **OhSh33t** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:50 pm

Genone wrote:you changed the timeout for rsync, not for wget (that's in FETCHCOMMAND).

Doh.. Thanks Genone.

Ravenium wrote:I'm still wondering where -r8 went. 6-8 mirrors now and can't find it either. Not the end of the world, but annoying

Someone on the Gentoo IRC channel showed me how to get around this. Good to know.. Dont forget to change permissions on this pkg.

Goto: http://gentoo.twobit.net/portage/

You will find portage-2.0.50-r8.tar.bz2. Download and now just mv the pkg to /usr/portage/distfiles/ and make sure the permissions are 664 and owner:group is root:portage.

For noobs assuming you cd to the directory where you downloaded the above pkg and just do as root:

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mv portage-2.0.50-r8.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles/

then

cd /usr/portage/distfiles

then

chmod 664 portage-2.0.50-r8.tar.bz2 

then 

chown root:portage portage-2.0.50-r8.tar.bz2 

then

emerge -v portage

OR

You could, as root cd to /usr/portage/distfiles/

then

wget http://gentoo.twobit.net/portage/portage-2.0.50-r8.tar.bz2
This will download the needed file to the "distfiles" directory,

and then change the permissions and owners for the portage pkg as described above.

HTH's

pumbaa · Post by **pumbaa** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:41 pm

had the same problem ...

@ OhSh33t
thanks for your advice, worked like a charm ...

OhSh33t · Post by **OhSh33t** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:30 pm

Genone wrote:you changed the timeout for rsync, not for wget (that's in FETCHCOMMAND).

Hmmm ok. I actually looked at that previously. My download was waiting to time out using http not ftp. Would it be safe to assume that the setting to adjust for the "fetchcommand timeout" be located in the /etc/wget/wgetrc file ?

Any pointers in the right direction are appreciated. I'm alittle lost here not knowing in which direction to go actually.

pumbaa wrote:@ OhSh33t
thanks for your advice, worked like a charm ...

No problem. Thanks

Thanks,