Dave Nebinger wrote: >>Dave Nebinger wrote: >> >> >>>The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released >>> >>> >>before >> >> >>>the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... >>> >>> >>Wouldn't >> >> >>>the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? >>> >>> >>I always wait until the patches appear on the mother mirror before >>releasing >>the ebuild. I think you are just unlucky in the mirrors you have tried. >> >>It can be found here, and should have made itself onto all of the other >>mirrors by now. >> >>http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2 >> >> > >Don't get me wrong, Daniel, I'm not trying to point any fingers here nor am >I trying to ruffle anyone's feathers... > >My sync occurred last night at 12:10 am EST but I didn't get a chance to >emerge -uD world until around 11am EST this morning. I searched through >10-15 ftp mirrors manually looking for the file and it hadn't been released >anywhere that I could see. > >That's why I had asked about the ebuild being available (somewhat >significantly) before the dependent files were also available. > >Perhaps this is an issue on my end, that the sync that I'm automatically >performing at 12:10 am EST is during some synchronization window that I'm >not aware of since I got the ebuild before the distfile sync. > >Dave > Hi, Some time ago a mail (here) suggested to put "http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"; as the last entry in /etc/make.conf explaining this to be the main/parent gentoo mirror site. Have it in my make.conf too. Opinions somebody. HTH. Rumen
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