On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. >> Message follows: >> >> * Running emerge --sync >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> If you are seeing this message, you are not in >> the right place. Please check our website >> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper >> hostnames for connection. This host no longer >> contains data. >> >> >> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage' >> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at >> main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ** April 21, 2009 >> ... And so on > > If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things go > south, you *could* use mine: > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/"; > SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage" > > That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to speak > to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to find > ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think they > just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys - not > that there's anything wrong in that :-)
Interesting offer, but I found "mirrorselect" on my own in the meantime, and first in its list is a site that I know is a 2-hour drive away (my grad school alma mater), and I like to keep global load down... not that I have anything against Cisco. Thnaks for the offer, though. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
