rsync://216.170.153.145/gentoo-portage has bad data: rsync -a rsync://216.170.153.145/gentoo-portage/sys-apps/sed . then ls -l sed: -rw-r--r-- 1 rajiv users 7909 Sep 22 00:16 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 rajiv users 0 Sep 23 20:13 Manifest drwxr-xr-x 2 rajiv users 160 Sep 22 00:16 files -rw-r--r-- 1 rajiv users 164 Dec 9 2003 metadata.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 rajiv users 0 Sep 23 20:13 sed-4.0.9.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 rajiv users 1416 Sep 21 23:42 sed-4.1.2.ebuild 0 byte files ...
seems to be ok now root@vapier 0 ~ # rsync -qa rsync://216.170.153.145/gentoo-portage/sys-apps/sed . root@vapier 0 ~ # ls -l sed total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7909 Sep 22 00:16 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 697 Sep 23 20:13 Manifest drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 22 00:16 files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Dec 9 2003 metadata.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Sep 23 20:13 sed-4.0.9.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1416 Sep 21 23:42 sed-4.1.2.ebuild