Bug 5982

Summary:	round-robin mirrors when emerging suggestion
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robert Cole <robert.cole>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	9964
Bug Blocks:

Description Robert Cole 2002-08-03 21:14:22 UTC

I'd like to suggest a feature I didn't see listed but it may have been buried 
in a report I missed. 
 
I notice that when I emerge rsync that if the mirror that's first contacted 
has reached max connections that it (emerge) just drops back to the command 
prompt. How about capturing that error and trying another mirror? 
 
Robert

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-03 23:31:39 UTC

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5965 also deals with improving rsync

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-03 23:33:04 UTC

err, sorry, posted comment to wrong report ... but 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4874 is related to this bug ...

Comment 3 Christopher Sharp 2002-10-31 11:56:39 UTC

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9964

has a patch written by me which allows rsync to retry if it fails
because of ie. too many users

Any feedback appreciated.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 13:01:10 UTC

we now have retry support in make.conf

# RSYNC_RETRIES sets the number of times portage will attempt to retrieve 
#     a current portage tree before it exits with an error. This allows     
#     for a more successful retrieval without user intervention most times.
#RSYNC_RETRIES="3"