you probably need to set the http_proxy variable to whatever your http proxy is.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:23:36 -0500, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
