Bug 165413 – GENTOO_MIRRORS has no effect on mirrors used

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Neal Ylitalo 2007-02-05 08:21:31 UTC]

I currently have GENTOO_MIRRORS set to "http://gentoo.osuosl.org" in make.conf, and when I try emerging anything, it tries to use http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a big problem, but since gentoo.chem.wisc.edu doesn't respond, I'm in a pickle.

I've also tried setting GENTOO_MIRRORS on the command line with no luck.


Attached is the output of emerge --info and sample output from an attempted emerge of gentoo-sources.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This is the only time I've ever seen this. I highly doubt this is easily reproducable, but this is what does it for me.

1. Set GENTOO_MIRRORS to "http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" in make.conf, and/or in the command line before running an emerge.
2. Run the emerge.
Actual Results:  
Portage tries to fetch files from a completely different server (gentoo.chem.wisc.edu) than the one specified.

Expected Results:  
Portage should fetch files from the servers specified.

[Comment 1 Neal Ylitalo 2007-02-05 08:26:51 UTC]

Created attachment 109203 [details]
Sample output from an emerge command.

This shows that the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable is completely disregarded, and a server completely different than the one specified is used.

[Comment 2 Neal Ylitalo 2007-02-05 08:27:14 UTC]

Created attachment 109205 [details]
Output of emerge --info

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-05 08:41:00 UTC]

Works for me. Try w/ sys-apps/portage-2.1.2-r7 though I highly doubt it will make any difference.


# GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org" emerge -f gentoo-sources
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 to /
>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2'
--09:38:25--  http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52
Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 143,193 (140K) [application/x-tar]

100%[===================================================================================================>] 143,193      192.05K/s             

09:38:26 (191.69 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2' saved [143193/143193]

 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...                                                                                     [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...                                                                                     [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.extras.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2'
--09:38:26--  http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52
Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 39,325 (38K) [application/x-tar]

100%[===================================================================================================>] 39,325        90.60K/s             

09:38:27 (90.46 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2' saved [39325/39325]

 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...                                                                                          [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * genpatches-2.6.19-6.base.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2'
--09:38:27--  http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52
Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 42,733,268 (41M) [application/x-tar]

[Comment 4 Neal Ylitalo 2007-02-06 02:10:04 UTC]

I found the problem - I had

local http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo

in /etc/portage/mirrors. I have no idea how it got there, or what it's for, but that was the culprit.