On Friday 04 June 2010 08:37:00 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2010 19:55:29 walt wrote: > > On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote: > > > Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database > > > for portage? > > > > > > It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now > > > its doing it again.. > > > > > > # emerge --sync > > > > > > >>> Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage... > > > >>> Checking server timestamp ... > > > > > > timed out > > > > If you don't specify a list of mirrors you want, portage will rotate > > randomly through its list. You'll probably get better results if you > > pick a handful of servers that are close to you and not overloaded. > > Emerge mirrorselect and see if you can get better servers. > > I'm also getting this. Initially I thought that DNS could not resolve for > some ISP related reason, but it is more involved than that. It seems like > a $SYNC not a $GENTOO_MIRRORS problem. > > I changed the rsync.europe.gentoo.org to rsync.de.gentoo.org and rsync > worked. So, could it be that something is wrong with the way the rsync > rsync.europe mirrors are meant to be rotated?
Any progress with this guys? Should we be filling in a bug report? -- Regards, Mick
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