So, my questions are:It's not a fix, but a work-around is to download the file(s) and save them to your /usr/portage/distfiles/ directory. Then do the emerge.
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...
If you get an error, such as in emerging the sources, then after the error ...
emerge -u --skipfirst world
This will work as long as the file isn't a dep of another file or will comprimise the functionality of the system.
kde uses certain files to be able to run gnome apps. Most notably, orbit.
If you don't want anything that gnome has to offer when emerging kde, then ...
#USE="-gnome" emerge -u kde
will do it.
I've never tried it, but you may be able to ... #USE="-gnome" emerge -u world
Johnny
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