Hi,
There are dozens of HTTP mirrors for Gentoo, just look at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml and find several close to you.
Google must not search mirror sites? Why? How? Nevermind...
Then add them to your /etc/make.conf using the GENTOO_MIRRORS option.
This could look something like this: GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo "
Maybe you should emerge sync as well, since portage seems to try downloading already outdated files.
You miss my point... having different mirrors makes no difference - it is not trying to download from a mirror, it is trying to download from imagemagick.org. My portage tree is perfectly up-to-date as, if you have a look at the latest stable imagemagick ebuild, it is for 6.1.8.8. This file is not on the imagemagick site.
Any other ideas?
Cheers
Antoine
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:01 +0100, Antoine wrote:
Hi,
I recently posted a bug which was closed as a non-issue. I have not played with make.conf or portage settings very much, so am confused. When I attempted to emerge the latest stable imagemagick it attempted to get it from imagemagick.org. The file no longer being there, it failed. I don't really know how ebuilds work, but it didn't look anywhere else. I searched google for the file but it didn't appear anywhere that still had a viable link. So I get told by the bug reviewer that it is on the gentoo mirrors, which indeed it is.
I guess google doesn't connect to ftp (or rsync?), so that must be why it didn't show up, and I guess there are no http mirrors for gentoo. My question is this. Why does the ebuild try and get the file from imagemagick.org, when they clearly don't keep old versions. This problem is not new, as a (in addition to mine) comment on gentoo-portage suggests. Can I tell portage to ignore ebuild locations and always get files from mirrors? The bug reviewer suggested my config was "broken", is that so? Howso?
Cheers
Antoine
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