Bug 210314 – thirdpartymirrors has broken entries for mirror://nero

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-02-16 01:23:56 UTC]

# emerge -av  app-cdr/nero

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-cdr/nero-3.0.2.1  USE="-doc" 17,240 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 17,240 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-cdr/nero-3.0.2.1 to /
>>> Downloading 'http://ftp6.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:13--  http://ftp6.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp6.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp3.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:13--  ftp://ftp3.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp3.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp5.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:13--  ftp://ftp5.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp5.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp4.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:13--  ftp://ftp4.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp4.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://ftp5.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:14--  http://ftp5.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp5.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp6.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
--02:20:14--  ftp://ftp6.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'
Resolving ftp6.use.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known.
!!! Couldn't download 'nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm'. Aborting.
 * Fetch failed for 'app-cdr/nero-3.0.2.1'

[Comment 1 Paul Philippov 2008-02-16 03:18:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)

seems there's a typo in the server address.
it should read ftpX.usw.nero.com, where X is a digit.

note "usw" instead of "use".

[Comment 2 Paul Philippov 2008-02-16 03:34:00 UTC]

$ HEAD ftp://ftp6.use.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
500 LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'ftp6.use.nero.com'
Client-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:23:09 GMT

$ HEAD ftp://ftp6.usw.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-3.0.2.1-x86_64.rpm
200 OK
Server: FTP-Server
Content-Length: 17652993
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:09:40 GMT
Client-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:21:59 GMT
Client-Request-Num: 1

i'd suggest to download the file manually with the correct url and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles

[Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-02-18 23:15:12 UTC]

Paul, thanks a lot for the help. Fixed.