Bug 570774

Summary:	emerge-webrsync rsync
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Matej Focko <matej.focko>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matej Focko 2016-01-03 19:09:04 UTC

emerge-webrsync can't handle rsync mirror defined in make.conf by GENTOO_MIRRORS variable. When changed protocol to http it works good.

output:
Fetching most recent snapshot ...
Trying to retrieve 20160102 snapshot from rsync://localhost/gentoo ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.bz2.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.gz.md5sum ...
20160102 snapshot was not found
Trying to retrieve 20160101 snapshot from rsync://localhost/gentoo ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.bz2.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.gz.md5sum ...
20160101 snapshot was not found

And I've also tried if it's not only because of the local mirror:
Fetching most recent snapshot ...
Trying to retrieve 20160102 snapshot from rsync://mirrors.nic.cz/gentoo-distfiles ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.bz2.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160102.tar.gz.md5sum ...
20160102 snapshot was not found
Trying to retrieve 20160101 snapshot from rsync://mirrors.nic.cz/gentoo-distfiles ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.bz2.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20160101.tar.gz.md5sum ...
20160101 snapshot was not found