Bug 955437

Summary:	sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.31-r2 upstream fetch failure
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dann <initial.dann>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	initial.dann
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build log for powermgmt-base

Description Dann 2025-05-05 00:21:06 UTC

Created attachment 927688 [details]
build log for powermgmt-base

I am attempting to install apmd on ppc64. It brings in powermgmt-base, but that fails to emerge due to 404 Not Found errors. It makes many attempts at pulling in this package but it's simply not found. `eix` only reports one version available. Debian mirrors that I navigated to (ex: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/powermgmt-base/) show versions 1.34 and up. I `emerge --sync`'d just now to ensure that no updates existed at the time of this bug report.

Perhaps the ebuild needs a version bump?

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2025-05-05 02:45:44 UTC

That file is on our mirrors, though, which Portage should look at first. Do you have a broken GENTOO_MIRRORS set? (The default should be okay.)

Comment 2 Dann 2025-05-06 17:03:27 UTC

My GENTOO_MIRRORS is set to ""

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2025-05-06 17:05:12 UTC

(In reply to Dann from comment #2)
> My GENTOO_MIRRORS is set to ""

Don't do that.

Comment 4 Dann 2025-05-07 15:09:33 UTC

I did miss that step. I'm trying to automate the installation and it got overlooked. I also assumed that leaving it empty would default to an official mirror, as my repos.conf/gentoo.conf file was set to sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage.

I tried to install mirrorselect and it gave me an error which was very unusual and mentioned not being able to download a file. I then searched online for some mirrors, set it to this:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.rackspace.com/gentoo/ rsync://rsync31.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ rsync://rsync26.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"


Sync'd and then both mirrorselect and powermgmt-base started emerging without issue.

Apologies for wasting a bug report, this is a pebkac issue. Thank you for helping me through it and helping me understand the Gentoo system better.

Comment 5 Sam James archtester

2025-05-07 15:12:52 UTC

(In reply to Dann from comment #4)
> I did miss that step. I'm trying to automate the installation and it got
> overlooked. I also assumed that leaving it empty would default to an
> official mirror, as my repos.conf/gentoo.conf file was set to sync-uri =
> rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage.

No worries, blank is blank, and the default is http://distfiles.gentoo.org/.

Thanks for following up!