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Bug 279374

Summary: Gentoo x86 LiveCD out of date - latest 0623.
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Milos Ivanovic <bugs>
Component: LiveCD/DVD/USBAssignee: Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: azamat.hackimov, cld71, dabbott, darkside, gentoo-bugs, gentoo.integer, logan.attwood, mephinet, sungeneral
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/current/
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 279260    
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Description Milos Ivanovic 2009-07-27 19:09:56 UTC
There has been no update to the Gentoo LiveCD or stages since the 23rd of June. Is there something going on or ... ?

Amd64 is updating fine, 0723 being the latest (http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/amd64/current/) -- please resolve this so we can get the most up-to-date versions of Gentoo.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a mirror
2. Pick the x86 architecture
3. Find that it's out of date!
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-28 01:03:15 UTC
There's an issue with glibc with CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu that is preventing the weekly build from reaching the installcd.

Also, an ISO that is 3 weeks out of date will not prevent you from getting "the most up-to-date versions of Gentoo".
Comment 2 Milos Ivanovic 2009-07-28 04:15:36 UTC
You're right it won't, but if a major component is updated then compile times will rise :)

Thanks for the info though.
Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-28 11:08:51 UTC
The stages are still being updated. While the i486 stages aren't being built (due to the glibc issue), the i686 stages work just fine.
Comment 4 Milos Ivanovic 2009-07-28 11:23:30 UTC
If the stages are being built, why are they not showing up?

They should be here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/current/
But instead, they are found here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/
Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-28 14:17:27 UTC
The 'current' symlink is only changed when there's an updated installcd.
Comment 6 mephinet 2009-08-03 15:12:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)

> Also, an ISO that is 3 weeks out of date will not prevent you from getting "the
> most up-to-date versions of Gentoo".

as soon as 3 weeks become 5 weeks, it does, apparently: 
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/ (and its mirrors) only hold the last four builds - and as none of them contains an install ISO, 2008.0 is the only ISO left :(
Comment 7 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-04 07:21:06 UTC
*** Bug 280265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-08-04 07:34:45 UTC
I'd like to suggest updating http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml (temporarily?) so that the x86 link goes SOMEWHERE useful, instead of producing an error. This will help stop people having to come to #gentoo and ask about it (or aborting and leaving, assuming (correctly?!?) that the distros documentation is no longer updated.
Comment 9 Attila Jecs 2009-08-05 09:24:13 UTC
the python-3 installation broken my server i have to reinstall it fast, what u suggest? i should use the 2008.0 ?
Comment 10 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-05 13:10:39 UTC
You can use the 2008.0 installcd and the i686 autobuild stage3 from earlier this week.
Comment 11 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-05 13:12:08 UTC
*** Bug 280452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-05 13:58:15 UTC
*** Bug 279974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-05 14:01:50 UTC
For anyone who is looking. As a temp workaround, there are a few mirrors that have the 0623 cd on them. This is due to the local mirror admin allowing a relaxed expiration policy (they keep more than 4 weeks of autobuilds)

http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/releases/x86/current/
http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/gentoo/releases/x86/current/
Comment 14 Milos Ivanovic 2009-08-06 14:16:06 UTC
I don't understand why nobody has done anything about the details on the Gentoo website. Why is it that it takes whoever is responsible for updating the website so long to actually state some details as to what is going on, which might just reduce the amount of duplicate bugs and problems that have been circulating for months now.

I just don't understand. Wouldn't it be so much more effective if the bug was actually stated on the page where it's originating from?

Please, just update the 'Get Gentoo' page -- is it really that difficult?
Comment 15 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-07 15:28:05 UTC
*** Bug 280582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-08 16:44:51 UTC
*** Bug 280778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-09 01:18:07 UTC
FYI, the symlinks have been restructured.

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_d6035bb3d19e28a14f2979cb985d2532.xml
Comment 18 Milos Ivanovic 2009-08-09 01:51:30 UTC
Thank you.
Comment 19 C D 2009-08-09 02:05:43 UTC
Thanks
Comment 20 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-20 19:52:02 UTC
The problem turned out to be a kernel bug that affected 2.6.26 - 2.6.28.7. Poseidon's kernel has been updated to 2.6.28-hardened-r9, which appears to solve the problem. We should get a normal i486/installcd autobuild next Tuesday. I'm leaving this open until then.
Comment 21 Milos Ivanovic 2009-09-02 12:07:59 UTC
The bug has been resolved; weekly autobuilds and LiveCDs are now being generated (yesterday's 20090901 is the most recent since 20090623).