On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@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. -- - Mark Shields
