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 1MGvrL-0000hv-T6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:11:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4149AE0414; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABE3E0414 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1143895ywm.46 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:11:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9y1laaJLOLXezp/XikIiccT9LCH+22jy9zXZ7DQlD64=; b=QSfGbGETYc/3+Dgqs9I06j6oaCZGpfWrespZWeglVXyahM9hQPM+F300idhbTosWOD HofNA30fu8bvAJp7yET2bEqpWmxpabuy9gA5bqGMHMO0FKErA8gue9Z5aOPLTtdOwhIE DrPTN9HQsMPsssgbtCB/EHaUoT3BYPUyKzrmU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZQHAIrxe9GcQEsYZkYemJ1LFgqhGIYnz70ZXz6N394AY10giHWfsgIsufKnfh9JFwx lu4oeCbBiUls49IHpUyT7yz+MAULrR7cd/GRm56ycYpBEdy5hn1zYpUS1T72FWYjVz9f pCwB1bh/KRFu8bSJPw2j0GWpnZqAVoVC2QCR8= 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 Received: by 10.90.103.13 with SMTP id a13mr157321agc.28.1245247885769; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:11:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906171555.06214.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50906170624m4110369btb4cc2cd5534061e0@mail.gmail.com> <200906171555.06214.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:11:25 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50906170711h59528b85kb1ec93d2cbcdd1ff@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage? From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1e53e216-27fc-4d7f-88eb-e881b695bbc4 X-Archives-Hash: bcd69bbdb386c240428773202c657acd On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon 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