Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools - can not download it

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Thaks Mark, yes your mirrors worked. It makes me wonder what is wrong with
> my mirrors (they all failed) :-/
>
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
> http://mirror.mdfnet.se/mirror/gentoo"
>
> --
> Joseph
>

Joseph,
   In all likelihood there is NOTHING wrong with your mirrors.
Consider the idea that:

1) There are 1000 mirrors out there. (made up number - I have no idea how many)

2) There's a glitch in your server or it's internet connection, or
it's simply off-line for a short time for maintenance or backups or
something.

3) The Gentoo-devs push out an update.

The result:

1) My mirror gets the update
2) Your mirror does not, at least for a little while

As I'm guessing from these questions that you are relatively new to
Gentoo keep in mind that Gentoo is a BIG thing in terms of all the
servers around the world that are supporting it. There's no way 999
servers should wait for one more to come on-line. What if it never
comes on-line? So they push stuff out, it goes where it can, and where
it cannot go it goes later, or never.

You get to choose your mirrors. You get to change your mirrors. (Using
mirrorselect IIRC) You're free to change them. I have lots of times.

WRT your mirrors, I've never used _any_ of them so I don't know they
are reliable.

I agree with Bruce that http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ tends to be very
reliable. I run Gentoo on a number of machine here at home. I
purposely use different mirrors on each one to give me a little more
redundancy and then rsync between them is one of them cannot get the
data from outside. I do use http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ on another
machine, just not the one I'm on right now.

(And referring to my little initramfs thread, the one that has now
booted from an "initramfs inside the kernel" as per Neil's inputs!)
<yipee!>

HTH,
Mark