Today I was setting up a Gentoo laptop with latest portage and stage3 20120216 tarball. Installing grub2 will fail because it tries to download os-prober-1.47 and fails. Upon looking at the url in my browser, there is no 1.47, only 1.49 and 1.42, as seen here: http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/os-prober/ It tries multiple sites before failing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Unmask and accept grub:2 (-9999) 2.emerge grub:2 3.watch it fail Actual Results: Aborts the download and fails. Expected Results: Installs grub2
Yes, it doesn't matter what upstream has. This is the sole reason that we mirror every distfile, because we can NOT rely on upstream to keep files. http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz exist, which implies that you have set a non-valid GENTOO_MIRRORS variable, but you didn't supply your emerge --info so I cannot say for sure.
Sorry; I will try other mirrors and get back to you whether that fixes the issue. It's happening on more than that package as well; a perl package fails to install when I emerge kde and another one fails when installing openssh package. I've already tried two mirrors: http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/distfiles/ and http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/ Oh! I also should mention; using mirrorselect command failed with a python exception when I ran it, so I added the mirror in /etc/make.conf instead.
(In reply to comment #2) > I've already tried two mirrors: > > http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/distfiles/ > and > http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/ BOTH of those are INVALID. % GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ emerge -f os-prober Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Fetching (1 of 1) sys-boot/os-prober-1.47 >>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' --2012-02-24 18:32:41-- http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz Resolving gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca... 64.59.140.91 Connecting to gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca|64.59.140.91|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24896 (24K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' 100%[======================================>] 24,896 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2012-02-24 18:32:41 (177 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' saved [24896/24896] * os-prober_1.47.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
Thank you. I will double-check mirrorselect and file a bug on that if it still breaks for me. Your patience really is appreciated. I will not reply to this bug anymore.
(In reply to comment #4) > Thank you. > I will double-check mirrorselect and file a bug on that if it still breaks for > me. Yeah, mirrorselect would have saved you some grief. Open a new bug on that if it is an issue. > Your patience really is appreciated. I will not reply to this bug anymore. No worries, bugzilla isn't a help forum though. You would get better support in irc, forums, or mailing lists. Take care.
