Bug 611226

Summary:	sys-apps/portage-2.3.3: emerge-webrsync doesn't show errors
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kingjon3377
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365029
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2017-02-28 15:58:43 UTC

On a system with accidentally no DNS configured:

# emerge-webrsync
[...]
Fetching most recent snapshot ...
Trying to retrieve 20170227 snapshot from http://distfiles.gentoo.org ...
Fetching file portage-20170227.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20170227.tar.bz2.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20170227.tar.gz.md5sum ...
20170227 snapshot was not found
[...]

The only indication that something went wrong is a generic "not found", which doesn't distinguish between no network, not reachable, actually not on server and other potential errors.

This makes debugging more difficult ...