On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel > update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in > $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when > it is unable to contact the server, when I would prefer it to use the > existing sources. Is there a way to force portage to do this? > > If not, I think I should file a bug on this as it is a significant > blocker. After all, if I didn't have a wired connection, the server would > always be unavailable until I remerged the package. > > None of the madwifi-ng ebuilds in my portage tree have an svn source. I'd be surprised if they did because the Gentoo devs generally discourage subversion/cvs/etc. ebuilds.
Also lots of times a SRC_URI server is down or a mirror is out of sync and we don't call them bugs; we call them crappy servers. Now I'm not a Gentoo dev (anymore) but I wouldn't be surprised that if you submitted a bug you'd get a WONTFIX or a "patches welcomed" response. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
