Bug 454898 – Portage should warn or stop when GENTOO_MIRRORS contains address not up

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2013-01-31 19:30:34 UTC]

For example:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="192.168.5.4" emerge -fO atool

>>> Fetching (1 of 1) app-arch/atool-0.39.0
>>> Downloading '192.168.5.4/distfiles/atool-0.39.0.tar.gz'
--2013-01-31 20:29:17--  http://192.168.5.4/distfiles/atool-0.39.0.tar.gz
Connecting to 192.168.5.4:80... 

It stay in this status for a while, so would be great do a sort of ping before start the merge.

[Comment 1 Yixun Lan 2013-01-31 21:36:26 UTC]

I'm not sure ping is really works, sometimes server may block ping for security reason, but you can still access http/ftp

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2013-02-01 00:17:03 UTC]

Why not just make your wget timeout shorter?

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-02-07 19:36:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure ping is really works, sometimes server may block ping for
> security reason, but you can still access http/ftp

I don't see any security issue allowing the ping. Btw the list of mirror is not infinite.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Why not just make your wget timeout shorter?

Also good idea.