Bootstrap fails during install due to not being able to locate unzip550.tar.gz Further examination reveiled that I could not locate/download any of the following files: unzip550.tar.gz j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip db-4.1.25.tar.gz db1.85.tar.gz fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz rsync-2.5.6-proxy-auth.patch shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2 Reproducable: always -- follow best understanding of install document to boostrap Quick fix: search net for specifc files and download into /usr/portage/distfiles Other details: P-III/850MHz 256M-Ram with connection via DSL modem. I am using another machine to report the bug and do not have ready access to the make.conf and other specific configuration information (such as mirror list). Will post a followup with this information later if desired. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install on a clean machine using 2004.3-r1 minimal install 2. follow install directions to "bootstrap" section 3. use "emerge -f system" to find all the other files currently not located. Actual Results: bootstrap dies while trying to build unzip550 Expected Results: bootstrap to suceed
Well, we provide the installation media, but we can't do anything about broken ebuilds or missing files on the mirrors - reassigning to bug-wranglers.
Did you try to "emerge sync" again?
re: missing files... Understand. I only reported to the install because it happend during the install, thanks for your patience. re: sync... The instructions read to do a "emerge --sync", but I did not try it a senond time after doing it the first. It appears that I have found all the files (thank you Google), so there is no need at this point. If it breaks again I will re- sync the system and try again. More on the files and their sizes: Another issue is that the j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip file actually has at least two incarnations. The first time I hand downloaded a version it was about 2MB to large. I am currently downloading one that should be the correct one. While running around on Google, I found that there are appearently a 1.4.2_01 and 1.4.2_02 version floating around. Appearently they both were saved to 1_4_2-doc.zip
While the machine in queestion is still bootstraping, etc. I thoutgt I would post quick a followup. After playing with the problem a little I discovered that the missing file issue was caused by the settings of GENTOO_MIRRORS (appended to /etc/make.conf as per installation instructions). As soon as I commented out that variable boostraping and emerging the system is working as expected. It appears that distfiles.gentoo.org is called used as a fallback measure. In addition I have some information on circular dependencies and other build weirdnesses that I have so far worked around. As soon as the machine is up enough to copy/paste the emerge info results I will post more details and write new bug reports for the portage/mirrors group.
Please put any mirror bugs in their own bug. Circular dependencies are normally a problem for one ebuild so please don't assign to the portage group. Please put comment 3, the info about j2sdk, in its own bug report. Seems as though your GENTOO_MIRRORS setting was invalid.
agreed that the problem is a GENTOO_MIRRORS problem. Will post minor bugs in separate reports as well as reporting j2dsk file size problem. Will also ignore circular dependencies. When I originally reported I though these issues were related to some problem with the portage tree or USE flags.
