I had the same problem with mirrorselect. So, I just selected my own mirror from the list and entered it into the correct file.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:56 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package... Hi All- I'm a Gentoo newbie but a long-time (10 years) Linux user/sysadmin and I have a quick question that's not addressed in the FAQ or the portage manual (admittedly, I've only read the first part and browsed the rest): When I know that the current revision of OpenAFS is 1.2.11, but my portage system shows that it's 1.2.10-r1, how do I get 1.2.11 installed? I just finished doing an emerge sync, but emerge search afs still shows that the latest version available is 1.2.10-r1. I guess that's because the mirror that emerge is looking at (default) only has 1.2.10. How do I configure portage to go directly to the source sites (say, openafs.org) for certain packages, rather than a big mirror that may not be completely up-to-date? mirrorselect is failing for me for some reason (it exits with "No mirrors have been selected. Exiting")---I'm not behind a firewall or anything. Thoughts? I'm very impressed with Gentoo, BTW. It solves a problem that I've been aware of for a long time and seems to solve other problems that have never even occurred to me yet, but that I can see are problems (after reading your docs). Very nice product! TIA, Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
