[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 04:52 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
>> at downloading gentoo-sources.  Something about not being able to
>> resolve the kernel URLS.
>> 
>> I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
>> find where `portage' is on disc during that build.  I wanted to
>> attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable:
>>   REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO
>> I never find a `portage' directory. 
>
> It grabs the sources from wherever they are specified (SRC_URI) in the
> ebuild.
>
> I just tried it and it worked for me:
>
> virtual-appliance # emerge --fetchonly gentoo-sources
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>>>> Fetching (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0.6
>>>> Downloading
> 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'
> --2011-11-27 12:15:37--
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2
> Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 64.50.233.100,
> 64.50.236.52, ...
> Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 76753134 (73M) [application/x-tar]
> Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'
>
> 100%[======================================>] 76,753,134   523K/s   in
> 49s
-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 
-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      --------

You messages have completely different urls.  Yours in connecting to 
'http://distfiles.gentoo.org

Mine is connecting to several differnt versions of kernel.org
,----
| Resolving www.fr.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.fr.kernel.org”
| >>> Downloading 'http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2'
| --2011-11-27 04:24:43--  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2
| Resolving www.us.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.us.kernel.org”
| !!! Couldn't download 'linux-3.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
|  * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
|  *  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'

[...]

Why is that?  I cannot ping any of the urls in that message yet
`kernel.org' is definitely up.

> The portage tree itself (should be) in the chroot directory.  The build
> will download the latest snapshot and unpack it in the chroot.
> Although, I did just try that and am getting failures.  It seems the
> latest portage snapshot is currupt?

I had no problem getting portage, the tar ball, but it never appears
to be accessible in chroot.  You mean chroot = vabuild/usr/portage by 
default right?

At any rate, I guess you are not maintaining things at the repo eh?