It sits for about 5 or ten minutes with nothing happening. Then says: Fetching most recent snapshot Attempting to fetch file dated: 20050323 --- No md5sum present on the mirror. (Not yet available.)
Then it goes to the next date, and same thing: Attempting to fetch file dated: 20050322 --- No md5sum present on the mirror. (Not yet available.) Anyone seen this behavior? On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:41:15 -0800, Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:30:55 -0500, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is running emerge --sync the same result as downloading a poartage > > snapshot and unpacking it into the /usr/portage directory? If so, do I > > have to clear the directory (except maybe for the distfiles directory) > > first? > > > > Not really. Emerge --sync uses the rsync protocol to only grab new > files, which normally isn't very many. Using emerge-webrysnc will > download the entire portage tree as a tarball, and then sync off of > it. It's far faster to use emerge --sync, but for those of us who > can't, using emerge-webrsync works. > > > > Reason: We have a very strange proxy environment here. Essentially > > there is a Microsoft proxy, which then passes to an upstream proxy > > where a antivirus gateway sits, and then on to the hardware firewall, > > and then out. This structure causes emerge --sync to fail, even though > > I can launch a browser and download a portage snapshot with no > > problem. So I thought I'd like to do my daily or weekly sync manually, > > if that will work. > > That's what I have to do, and it works. Use the command > "emerge-webrsync", and it'll do the download for you. > > > -- > > Mark > > Mike > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
