Currently links to German rsync mirrors are set to: rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/gentoo/ they do not work. Instead it should probably be URLSOMTHINGFOOBAR/gentoo-portage/ instead of a pain URL/gentoo/ Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r1, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cgi cli cpudetection crypt cups curl dbus directfb dlloader dnd doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnome-print gnomedb gnuplot gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icc icc-pgo icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 isdnlog java javascript jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww lirc lzw mad matrox mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mule mysqli nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav objc objc++ ogg opengl opera oss pam passfile pcre pdflib perl pic png ppds pppd print profile python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection reiserfs rle rtc sasl scanner sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg svga svgz t1lib tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vim vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wma xemacs xine xml xmms xorg xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xslt xv xvid zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_de lirc_devices_serial userland_GNU video_cards_mga video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fox2mike: please look at this bug
Christian, mirrors.xml lists distfile mirrors, NOT gentoo-portage (rsync) mirrors. You're confusing the two. While distfile mirrors serve the source packages, rsync mirrors serve the portage tree. There are distfile mirrors that are accessible over the rsync protocol, and they are listed over at mirrors.xml.
