Bug 16514 – Old Ebuilds in portage snapshot

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bill Clark 2003-02-27 18:41:10 UTC]

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!

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-02-27 19:19:05 UTC]

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

[Comment 2 Bill Clark 2003-02-27 21:03:00 UTC]

I can't rsync through our firewall.  But I do download the snapshot daily.
I am up to date on downloading snapshots.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-03 07:06:21 UTC]

any update on this? I think the snapshot was recently upgraded no?

[Comment 4 Bill Clark 2003-03-03 11:46:13 UTC]

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.

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-09 08:42:21 UTC]

avenj -- punting to you becuase this was a portage snapshot issue (specifically the snapshot was old and crusty)

[Comment 6 Bill Clark 2003-03-09 10:44:49 UTC]

This bug can be closed anytime now.  Since I reported the problem was fixed once I let rsync through our firewalls.

[Comment 7 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2003-03-09 12:42:22 UTC]

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.

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-09 14:12:11 UTC]

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