Gentoo mirrors do not have the tar for this and it was been removed from the upstream debian servers. I managed to find one that passes portages validations: http://distfiles.macports.org/whois/ Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > Gentoo mirrors do not have the tar for this whois is available; E2160 ago # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -fv --nodeps whois These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: ... done! [ebuild N ] net-misc/whois-5.0.6 USE="nls" 78 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 78 kB >>> Fetching (1 of 1) net-misc/whois-5.0.6 >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/whois_5.0.6.tar.gz' --2010-09-24 21:53:01-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/whois_5.0.6.tar.gz Risoluzione di distfiles.gentoo.org... 140.211.166.134, 216.165.129.135, 199.6.1.174, ... Connessione a distfiles.gentoo.org|140.211.166.134|:80... connesso. HTTP richiesta inviata, in attesa di risposta... 200 OK Lunghezza: 79559 (78K) [application/x-gzip] Salvataggio in: "/usr/portage/distfiles/whois_5.0.6.tar.gz" 100%[====================================================================================>] 79.559 70,4K/s in 1,1s 2010-09-24 21:53:03 (70,4 KB/s) - "/usr/portage/distfiles/whois_5.0.6.tar.gz" salvato [79559/79559] * whois_5.0.6.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
The files are indeed available on Gentoo mirrors, though the SRC_URI itself is no longer valid.
Not a problem for us, unless you have broken make.conf regarding mirror configuration, portage will fetch the tarball from Gentoo mirrors. That's why we have mirrors in the first place :-)
I think the more correct solution here would be to update SRC_URI to use mirror://gentoo/ instead.
(In reply to comment #4) > I think the more correct solution here would be to update SRC_URI to use > mirror://gentoo/ instead. > nope, not required. the file is mirrored, and with proper setup (make.conf) sys-apps/portage will download the file from gentoo mirrors first.
(In reply to comment #5) > nope, not required. > the file is mirrored, and with proper setup (make.conf) sys-apps/portage will > download the file from gentoo mirrors first. That's not what PMS says: > If a component contains a full URI with protocol, that download location must > be used. Package managers may also consult mirrors for their files. For me, 'may' != 'must'.
you must have a valid Gentoo mirror in your make.conf. if you dont, your system is stupidly broken.
(In reply to comment #7) > you must have a valid Gentoo mirror in your make.conf. if you dont, your > system is stupidly broken. What's the relevance?
Vapier: My bad this one. Even a former Gentoo dev can make mistakes like having a bad mirror in make.conf . Two things in any case: 1-SRC_URI should be valid no matter what. 2-It is good to see that after all these years you still have not lost your touch.
(In reply to comment #9) > 1-SRC_URI should be valid no matter what. I've already asked QA about that and they do not care.
Gustavo: i didnt say you were dumb, just your config file ;).