Bug 12231 – Single rsync.us.gentoo.org Portage mirror significantly out-of-date (?)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuel Greenfeld 2002-12-16 00:29:40 UTC]

I use the rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage mirror set for updating portage. 
While updating off of what I believe is the Wayne State (Michigan) mirror, I
found myself downloading 7000+ files.  Doing an "emerge --pretend world" then
recommended I install a few dozen things that were lower versions of what I
already had.  

Mind you, these were not things that I installed yesterday, but included things
that I had upgraded over past month.

Running another "emerge sync" off of rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu then restored my
list to what is was before.

[Comment 1 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 07:55:37 UTC]

Confirmed over here, looking into it...

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 13:48:20 UTC]

rsync9.de.gentoo.org is out of date, too

sv24 root # emerge -pu world 

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] net-fs/samba-2.2.7a [2.2.7-r0]
[ebuild    U ] app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.1-r3 [1.4.1-r2]
[ebuild    U ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-3.2.0.2230-r1 [3.2.0.2230-r0]

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 13:55:16 UTC]

please forget my comment, i was wrong

[Comment 4 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 23:58:18 UTC]

No administrative contact in the rsync MOTD; there appears to be a gentoo-mirror
mailing list which rsync mirror admins are supposed to be on, I'm not sure if
that's still maintained (and I'm definitely not on it in any case) - cybersystem?

[Comment 5 Samuel Greenfeld 2002-12-17 00:22:38 UTC]

   If no one has anymore details on this mirror, it seems a quick check of the
DNS records show the mirror in question to be Wayne State's public FTP site in
addition to the rsync mirror.


$> host rsync.us.gentoo.org
.....
rsync.us.gentoo.org has address 141.217.1.55
.....
$> host 141.217.1.55
55.1.217.141.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ftp1.wayne.edu.


   The FTP site lists two public email contacts: Nathan Labadie
<ab0781@_ANTISPAM_wayne.edu> and Robert Thompson <ab5602@_ANTISPAM_wayne.edu>
(take out the _ANTISPAM_; yes, our addresses are in bugzilla, but theirs don't
have to be).

   So if this mirror is indeed out of date, these two people are potential contacts.

[Comment 6 Sascha Schwabbauer (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 10:34:02 UTC]

yeah that mirror is outdated.. i sent the admin a mail..

[Comment 7 Sascha Schwabbauer (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 10:49:36 UTC]

ok, that was a fast answer.. they have problems at the moment so i put it out of
the cycle.. the admin will tell me when its up again..

[Comment 8 Sascha Schwabbauer (RETIRED) 2002-12-24 08:46:54 UTC]

ok its out of the round-robin so i think this bug is fixed..