* Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?
@ 2009-06-17 14:40 99% ` Mark Shields
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From: Mark Shields @ 2009-06-17 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>
Mirrorselect is certainly your friend, and described in the Gentoo Handbook.
If you haven't already, I would use it to select a rsync mirror, too.
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- Mark Shields
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