My answers: 1) Not sure, I've had the same problem but since I am using a 2.6.1 kernel I don't need it. 2) use emerge -i gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5.patch.bz2. This will insert the package name into the DB making your machine think it is installed and doesn't need to be downloaded.
Emerge --help if your friend. Cheers Simon -----Original Message----- From: Neal Lippman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 14:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file? So I'm not quite sure what to do here. Last night I did an emerge sync; emerge -pu world and there was a whole long list of things that needed to be emerged (including a bunch of ghome libraries to be installed as new installs, even though I run KDE and don't run gnome...I wonder what I have installed that now needs gnome?). Anyway, I went ahead and emerge -u world. The first few packages installed fine, but then it tries to retrieve sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5. During that process, it tries to retrieve http://dev.gentoo.org/~iggy/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5.patch.bz2 and there it hangs. ps aux shows me that it is trying to wget that file, and that hangs for a long time and eventually times out, so the emerge process terminates. So, my questions are: 1) why isn't that file available? I can access it fine in my web browser, so I know the site is up and the file is there. Since the wget command (via ps) shows the --passive-ftp modifier to wget, made me assume wget is trying to retrieve the file via ftp and not http, but netstat shows me that the socket is actually connect to the www port and not ftp port on the server, SO, if I can retrieve the file via my web browser, why not with wget? I shoudl also note that the socket status is SYN_SENT and not ESTABLISHED, so the connetion isn't being made. 2) is there a way to tell emerge to try a different server? I should note here that my GENTOO_MIRRORS in my conf files does not include dev.gentoo.org, so somewherein the emerge sync process that server is specified. 3) Is there any way to tell emerge to just skip this part of the emerge world? I don't really need new kernel sources now anyway... Thanks. nl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
