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Bug 17398 - mirrorselect -a does not fetch mirror list
Summary: mirrorselect -a does not fetch mirror list
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Mark Guertin
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Reported: 2003-03-12 15:50 UTC by Andrew Resch
Modified: 2003-03-13 11:58 UTC (History)
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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
use wget in mirrorselect (mirrorselect-wget.patch,607 bytes, patch)
2003-03-12 15:52 UTC, Andrew Resch
Details | Diff

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Description Andrew Resch 2003-03-12 15:50:28 UTC
[root@helium:~]# mirrorselect -a
Fetching server list from web
Running netselect on serverlist, this may take a moment
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
no mirrors selected, exiting

the problem seems to be in the line:
 MIRROR_LIST=$((echo -e "GET /main/en/mirrors.xml HTTP/0.9\r\n\r\n" 1>&3 & cat
0<&3) 3<> /dev/tcp/gentoo.org/80 | \

i don't have a /dev/tcp device.. im not sure what exactly it is, or how to get it?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mirrorselect -a
2.
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Comment 1 Andrew Resch 2003-03-12 15:52:11 UTC
Created attachment 9310 [details, diff]
use wget in mirrorselect
Comment 2 Mark Guertin 2003-03-13 11:58:46 UTC
you shouldn;t have to do anything to get one.  Also mirrorselect is almost thru 
a complete rewrite (using wget and some other fancy stuff), so I'm going to 
make this one closed as wontfix, and within a day or two you should have new 
version.