Thanks. I was able to fix the d/l problem - it turned out (surprise) to be a misconfiguration in my firewall. Thanks for all who responded, and sorry for being dumb.
I had to open a port in the firewall to fix this. I need to figure out how to get wget to use a proxy by default - there must be some system-wide wget config file, I just have to find it. nl On Monday 19 January 2004 11:06 pm, LoneStar wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > >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... > > 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. > > 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 > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
