For weeks I have been trying to upgrade to KDE 3.1 It alway halts at upgrading xfree to 4.2.99 So I try to do by hand an emerge -uv x11-base/xfree And here are the results everyday for the last couple weeks: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-base/xfree-4.2.99 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu//distfiles/X4299-2.tar.bz2 >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/X4299- 2.tar.bz2 >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/gentoo-sources/Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-base/xfree-4.2.99 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu//distfiles/X4299-2.tar.bz2 >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/X4299- 2.tar.bz2 >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/gentoo-sources/X4299-2.tar.bz2 !!! Couldn't download X4299-2.tar.bz2. Aborting. !!! Couldn't download X4299-2.tar.bz2. Aborting. Other messages have ERROR 404: Not Found I have checked the mirror myself and this X4299-2.tar.bz2 file doesn't exist!
hmm please emerge sync xfree-4.2.99 is not even in the tree any more. The most recent is xfree-4.2.99.902
I can't rsync through our firewall. But I do download the snapshot daily. I am up to date on downloading snapshots.
any update on this? I think the snapshot was recently upgraded no?
Luckily I work in the Data Security Group. So I added a rule to our firewall to all me unrestricted access to rsync. After I did this my xfree problem was solved. What do people who have no control over firewalls do? I was under the impression I could just download the snapshots and do some emerge cleans and things would keep in sync. Evidently this is not the case.
avenj -- punting to you becuase this was a portage snapshot issue (specifically the snapshot was old and crusty)
This bug can be closed anytime now. Since I reported the problem was fixed once I let rsync through our firewalls.
Was the snapshot itself bad or were new snapshots not getting there? If the snapshot itself was bad, it's mholzer's bug - he does the snapshots.
jon: quick solve :) a) the snapshot is created once a day (daily - selfasking filename) b) emerge-webrsync is in portage noch (2.0.47+). if you use a very very old gentoolkit, emerge-webrsync doesn't delete old files closing this now