I'm trying to get a new gentoo box up. I'm using the 16Mb boot CD. Everything works fine until after I've done 'emerge rsync'. Emerge warns me that make.profile is missing, but that a 'emerge sync' should fix this. After the sync completes, however, make.profile is still missing, and 'scripts/bootstrap.sh' doesn't exist either. I've been following the install doc step by step. Any idea what's going wrong? > > Hmm, after doing 'emerge sync' a second time, which hit a different > > mirror (gatech) and completed successfully, I now have 'bootstrap.sh' > > and 'make.profile'. > > do you remeber, which one was the first one? It was brainpeddlers, in Sweden, IIRC. I don't remember the whole URL.
I'm the admin of that server (and it's in norway, not sweden ;), and I just removed the bootstrap.sh on my workstation and did "emerge rsync"... the file was received from the rsync-server, and everything seems to be in order. on my workstation: # ls -l bootstrap.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2803 Apr 25 08:11 bootstrap.sh
Jean, is this still an issue?
My experience was that a rsync completed apparently OK, and that bootstrap.sh (and others, at least make.profile) was subsequently missing. I think the problem is more likely to be with the rsync connection than with the mirror. It's happened to me several times that rsyncs have failed (normally with a message such as "Connection closed") so that I had to restart the sync. I guess I'm just reporting the effects that interrupted or otherwise bad rsyncs have on the installation process ..
