[gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Hi,
I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop
server timeout.
What could be the solution (except waiting...)?
Is there any other way to get it as from a "down" server?

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop
> server timeout.
> What could be the solution (except waiting...)?
> Is there any other way to get it as from a "down" server?

Find another mirror and download it to /usr/portage/distfiles/

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[William Kenworthy]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:19 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop
> > server timeout.
> > What could be the solution (except waiting...)?
> > Is there any other way to get it as from a "down" server?
> 
> Find another mirror and download it to /usr/portage/distfiles/
> 
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck

or google for xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 and download manually
to /usr/portage/distfiles

Slight security risk (try and choose a source that looks good) which the
MD5 summing should mitigate.

BillK


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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:36 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop
> server timeout.
> What could be the solution (except waiting...)?

ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/

and then mirror "lib/", "doc/",...

Example with lftp + zsh (emerge zsh if not yet installed):

$ cd
$ mkdir xorg; cd xorg
$ lftp ftp.x.org
> cd pub/individual
> mirror lib doc utils xproto xserver
	[ go an have a cup of coffee ]
> quit

# su
# zsh
# for B (**/*.bz2)(cp $B /usr/portage/distfiles/)

Then it's OK.

But one question. Is not there any way to get portage try another
source? Why does portage try only freedesktop.org server? It appears
that ftp.x.org is an up mirror: why not use it too?

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:14 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:
> or google for xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 and download manually
> to /usr/portage/distfiles 

It's about downloading _all_ the needed tarballs hosted on freedesktop,
man.
Manual way is not wise... I created a local mirror using ftp.x.org
(see my other post)

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Dan]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:09:37 +0100
Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina.rakotomandimby@etu.univ-orleans.fr>
wrote:


> 	[ go an have a cup of coffee ]

that is a _Very_ good idea...

> But one question. Is not there any way to get portage try another
> source? Why does portage try only freedesktop.org server? It appears
> that ftp.x.org is an up mirror: why not use it too?
> 

if you have a list of gentoo mirrors in make.conf, namely the kind of
list generated by mirrorselect, you will get the cascading mirror thing
you desire.  Be warned though, i have never found it a helpful remedy.
Usually, if you don't set a mirror at all, everything works fine.  
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:57 -0600, Dan wrote:
> if you have a list of gentoo mirrors in make.conf, namely the kind of
> list generated by mirrorselect, you will get the cascading mirror
> thingyou desire.  Be warned though, i have never found it a helpful
> remedy. 

But I noticed "X" stuffs related to freedesktop are not downloaded from
a gentoo mirror but from the freedesktop's servers.
So: How to manage?

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina.rakotomandimby@etu.univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:14 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > or google for xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 and download manually
> > to /usr/portage/distfiles 
> 
> It's about downloading _all_ the needed tarballs hosted on freedesktop,
> man.
> Manual way is not wise... I created a local mirror using ftp.x.org
> (see my other post)

Maybe you like to change your ebuilds to use CSDB 
(http://csdb-wiki.metux.de/) 


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