From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H25Py-0007dn-GQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:40:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l03CcHOn019403; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:38:17 GMT Received: from mfc.musees-franchecomte.com (mfc.musees-franchecomte.com [83.143.18.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l03CZZnT004425 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:35:35 GMT Received: by mfc.musees-franchecomte.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B0E712980A4; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:11:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (tru75-7-88-161-129-91.fbx.proxad.net [88.161.129.91]) by mfc.musees-franchecomte.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1DE2980A3 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:11:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1167820613.4923.8.camel@r4000> References: <1167820613.4923.8.camel@r4000> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:09:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1167826177.4923.17.camel@r4000> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mfc.musees-franchecomte.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 09fa8619-b6ea-42c7-ada0-18e2774f51ea X-Archives-Hash: 5e0a963560a88a828f7715d168db8e0d 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list