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 1Mkeeg-00077V-2S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:53:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77EBEE090F; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E5DE090F for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so1856520fxm.34 for ; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:53:11 -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; bh=H7dyy2LFrjt1lwGeTx0ahSld0RILMtWoL7tVClMMliY=; b=NkOqk+nd4HwjLrtqhZe5I4qHTSCzTRZfQQ5Dpgod4xQCzgYoE9SI2Dboj3MYOkYINj DfuyNCe+4E1XTvFOrbhOWA6b5bJHmECmnIU0Qm7HRDEWyCXV6z5B4zSIyPI2I19MTbuw /74NqeXGcZ/12nEFngHLLVs1nlPXoxpAQt9pQ= 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; b=NNk4R6Sa7VXlfb/Thz2+jR5aU8GRW1RNTFOx0/uqheH31zoukF/7ptEmdIFwhMbYfW +qNZBo4svRJ161gjYaaqYbNpSA89A6A7voYP4GEbvnmGWCdAGTEPPhV2jUEbLaPc4pOo DwqOgNJ7xRysP1VTlBMAEs7/zEtJxpBazC0+s= 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 10.204.19.142 with SMTP id a14mr12141934bkb.1.1252331590323; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:53:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090907130809.GA32552@princeton.edu> References: <53e35fd50909070519h5ac5fe3bpdebbbc6a4d91cab2@mail.gmail.com> <20090907130809.GA32552@princeton.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:53:05 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 78b66da4-e44a-4704-a028-a81f3c13981f X-Archives-Hash: c5bfbdcbfbda34c71b8c824debf18aa5 On 9/7/09, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: >> when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename >> trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has >> special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many >> mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's >> some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename. >> could someone here fix this? > > So your really should be trying to download > > http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz My guess was that OP meant that Gentoo Mirrors don't seem to carry the file, even if it is still directly downloadable? Over here portage tries downloading it from mirrors first (naturally), gets 404s and then goes for the real source. So, maybe OP has a gentoo mirror available nearby (in network topology) and just wants to reduce wasted international traffic? -- Arttu V.