This happens with both portage 2.0.47-r8 and 2.0.47-r7. When an rsync mirror times out, portage simply stops trying to update, even though I have more than 1 try set (RSYNC_RETRIES="5"). Other rsync errors seem to cause the rsync retry, but a timeout simply stops it right there. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: You can get this problem much more often by decreasing your RSYNC_TIMEOUT. NOTE: you don't have to decrease RSYNC_TIMEOUT to reproduce the problem, it simply makes it obvious and easily reproducible. 1. open /etc/make.conf 2. change the line "#RSYNC_TIMEOUT=180" to "RSYNC_TIMEOUT=1" 3. save and exit 4. on command line type "emerge sync" Actual Results: After you "emerge sync" a couple of times you will have to have found a slow enough server to time out. When rsync times out, portage will simply quit trying to rsync, even if there are more retrys left. Expected Results: "emerge" should have kept trying other servers until the set number of RSYNC_RETRIES have been attempted.
sounds like a portage issue more than a mirror issue. re-assigning to carpaski.
This seems to have been fixed since.
reporter has marked as fixed
