672900 – Fetch failed for 'net-libs/serf-1.3.8-r1'

Bug 672900 - Fetch failed for 'net-libs/serf-1.3.8-r1'

Summary: Fetch failed for 'net-libs/serf-1.3.8-r1'

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2018-12-10 21:02 UTC by Marius Glauser
Modified:	2018-12-10 22:30 UTC (History)
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Description Marius Glauser 2018-12-10 21:02:59 UTC

"emerge net-libs/serf" throws a fetch error:

>>> Downloading 'http://artfiles.org/apache.org/serf/serf-1.3.8.tar.bz2'
--2018-12-10 21:51:28--  http://artfiles.org/apache.org/serf/serf-1.3.8.tar.bz2
Resolving artfiles.org... 80.252.110.38, 2a00:1f78:af:11::2
Connecting to artfiles.org|80.252.110.38|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2018-12-10 21:51:28 ERROR 404: Not Found.

There are only files for version 1.3.9 on http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/serf/

Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-12-10 21:31:29 UTC

Please set your GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in make.conf to a valid value (that's not blank) and you will be able to download 1.3.8-r*.

The files are mirrored in Gentoo for this exact purpose when upstreams feel all old versions should be pulled.

Comment 2 Marius Glauser 2018-12-10 22:30:29 UTC

Thank you for the solution!

I had the GENTOO_MIRRORS point to http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ which was decommissioned some time ago.

I now switched to https://mirror.init7.net/gentoo/ and the install works.

BTW: This new mirror is not listed in https://gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/. Who is responsible for this list?