Bug 54236

Summary:	If your net card does not support ipv6 make.conf gets an error
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Barry Mead <bmead15>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) <tercel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	sufcrusher
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Barry Mead 2004-06-17 17:24:20 UTC

If you network card does not support ipv6 (which my via-rhine type motherboard
net chip doesn't) then a line of output is put into your make.conf file which is later interpreted as an error.  The fix is simple (Just put a # sign before this
error message so that when it goes into the make.conf file as an output of the
mirrorselect -a -s4 -0 >>/mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
command it does not later get interpreted as an error.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-18 08:47:58 UTC

This has nothing to do with the card and more to do with your network connection.

It doesn't appear that mirrorselect is safe to use as described in the handbook from the LiveCD due to the presence of the ipv6 module.  Is there a proper solution for this?

Comment 2 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-19 02:43:11 UTC

*** Bug 54379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-11 08:46:27 UTC

Reassigning a stale bug to mirrorselect maintainer.

Comment 4 Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-11 12:41:42 UTC

Mirrorselect versions greater than 1.0 should handle ipv6 propperly in all
cases. please test and file a new bug if appropriate.