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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> 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
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> =A0 NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> If you are seeing this message, you are not in
>> the right place. =A0Please check our website
>> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper
>> hostnames for connection. =A0This host no longer
>> contains data.
>>
>>
>> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
>> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
>> main.c(1504) [receiver=3D3.0.5]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
>> ** 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=3D"ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/"
> SYNC=3D"rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage"
>
> That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to s=
peak
> to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to f=
ind
> 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 :-)

Interesting offer, but I found "mirrorselect" on my own in the
meantime, and first in its list is a site
that I know is a 2-hour drive away (my grad school alma mater), and I
like to keep global load down...
not that I have anything against Cisco.

Thnaks for the offer, though.


--=20
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD