I've been rsyncing with rsync.us.gentoo.org for a couple of weeks now and I'm noticing that only a couple of the guys in the round-robin actually work when I try to rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/* The list of addresses I have put together for rsync hosts that refuse that link is: rsync5.us.gentoo.org rsync2.us.gentoo.org rsync6.us.gentoo.org rsync21.us.gentoo.org rsync25.us.gentoo.org rsync12.us.gentoo.org rsync20.us.gentoo.org rsync24.us.gentoo.org CEDE Gentoo Mirror (That's all their MOTD said) rsync16.us.gentoo.org rsync23.us.gentoo.org rsync11.us.gentoo.org rsync10.us.gentoo.org rsync17.us.gentoo.org rsync22.us.gentoo.org rsync15.us.gentoo.org rsync18.us.gentoo.org (MOTD mentions rsync'ing gentoo-portage) rsync9.us.gentoo.org rsync25.us.gentoo.org plus, rsync8.us.gentoo.org has an issue where if you try to connect it says chdir failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rsync to any of the lists hosts 2. 3. Actual Results: get the error Expected Results: successfull rsync
You are trying to pull packages offered from our source mirrors via rsync from our portage mirrors. Source mirrors are not required to provide rsync, and many of them don't because of the added load to the server. The mirrors in the rsync.gentoo.org DNS are used for portage: whenever you do an "emerge sync" portage will rsync your local package tree with the package tree on our mirrors. If you are trying to mirror packages in the releases/x86/1.4 tree, please refer to the distfiles mirroring document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml Cheers! -Corey
