From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGvd8-0007oU-5v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39468E0364; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f209.google.com (mail-fx0-f209.google.com [209.85.220.209]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9716E0364 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so302043fxm.34 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=hc+fikbd7HZ725E/xx8cfMdnsBhGYDE8RUTBjBP2o9w=; b=qwunpR7QjE929N8Cd2tXmzoPDz3oVG1ywnIQt8myTCvErrjJiSDQ2cJ7DQss4qmvc/ PjfaIOO1YFu+R2hNfz+Qahdl7M8/zdwQ8cZz1oIXzwcIf+CRgMpokB9Q/CsjbgnoztX4 kSDxPjH2jrJLlaqtvtoGhSBiFq1P29Ss7b4JU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Ovbyjhy1g3rd045f6tlJjPWos7ASOoU0t8RZmG7jKEgtN+yui6IVwkEQfOy5vTNnFF Pxjbu0wAnhoaaqWNfyZ0b0SGH956oBtvKSIHoqdqiqzELGzIkQhkBeGFSevlhSZyMfGA pVwqNFcCxWXxoIvT1T3xQoKwsVo7mmRYSi+D4= Received: by 10.216.26.206 with SMTP id c56mr103528wea.45.1245247001324; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm82869eyd.17.2009.06.17.06.56.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage? Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:55:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <9acccfe50906170624m4110369btb4cc2cd5534061e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50906170624m4110369btb4cc2cd5534061e0@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906171555.06214.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 137ae8f6-7e68-4541-89fd-ef38e21e683b X-Archives-Hash: a3ce7fa902ebfe423322753a54e5cf6b On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own > mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. > Message follows: > > * Running emerge --sync > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > If you are seeing this message, you are not in > the right place. Please check our website > http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper > hostnames for connection. This host no longer > contains data. > > > @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage' > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at > main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ** April 21, 2009 > ... And so on If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things go south, you *could* use mine: GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/" SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage" That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to speak to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to find ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think they just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys - not that there's anything wrong in that :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com