mirrorselect fails. Its output includes the "Usage:" lines from netselect as though netselect was given invalid parameters. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # su 2. # mirrorselect -a -s3 -b10 -o >> /etc/make.conf Actual Results: Downloading a list of mirrors... Netselect is currently unable to handle ipv6, stripping known ipv6 hosts... Removing IPV6 Only Servers... Running netselect to determine mirrors, this might take a moment... Splitting into blocks of 10. Please note that the smaller the block size the longer this takes... Preparing to select fastest servers... Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...] No mirrors have been selected. Exiting. Expected Results: Three mirrors should have been selected and added to /etc/make.conf. This is an old bug from 2004 that has popped up again. It was probably fixed before, but that fix seems to have broken. This bug is identical to bug 52205 except that that was on x86 whereas I am using amd64. Bug 52205 was closed because it was supposedly a duplicate of bug 56721. Please notice that bug 52205 was NOT a duplicate of bug 56721. The original poster of bug 52205 had the problem that mirrorselect uses netselect incorrectly. The second poster's problem was with host, not with netselect. The second poster should not have posted his problem in that bug because it was a duplicate of bug 56721 and because it was not the same problem the original poster was having. I believe Marius Mauch closed bug 52205 in error because the second poster had changed the topic. I am using: mirrorselect-0.89 netselect-0.3-r1 Please forgive me if I'm stepping on any toes. This is my first bug report. # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE="alsa cdr dvd -gtk -gnome kde mozilla mp3 oggvorbis opengl oss qt" # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Oops! Here is the correct `emerge --info` and also my /etc/make.conf. # emerge --info !!! Invalid token (not "=") ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ !!! ParseError: Invalid token (not '='): //etc/make.conf: line 37 in //etc/make.conf !!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use them. # cat /etc/make.conf # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" # Original USE flags were: (actually, alsa might have been added later) USE="alsa cdr dvd -gtk -gnome kde mozilla mp3 oggvorbis opengl oss qt" ALSA_CARDS="ymfpci intel8x0" # Uncomment to allow portage to overwrite config files #CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ... I have snipped about a hundred URLs from the end of the file.
Disregard the output of `emerge --info` in my second post. The ftp URLs at the end of my make.conf had borked emerge altogether. I removed the URLs and now my `emerge --info` looks like it did in my first post.
This should not be an issue in mirrorslect after version 1.0. Currently all such versions are in ~arch, so test at your own risk. If the problem persists in the new versions, please feel free to open a new bug.
