Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:19:34 PM Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 22:45:28 Dale wrote:
> > Mick wrote:
> > > This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this
> > > package.  Is it a known problem, or am I the only one suffering from
> > > this?
> > >
> > >>>> Emerging (1 of 8) www-plugins/chrome-binary-
> > >
> > > plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1::gentoo
> > >
> > >  * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch progress, run
> > >  * `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in another terminal.
> > >
> > >>>> Downloading
> >
> > 'https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/go
> > ogle-chrome-stable_41.0.2272.76-1_amd64.deb'
> >
> > > --2015-03-10 22:02:09--
> >
> > https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/goo
> > gle-chrome-stable_41.0.2272.76-1_amd64.deb
> >
> > > Resolving dl.google.com... 216.58.210.46, 2a00:1450:4009:800::200e
> > > Connecting to dl.google.com|216.58.210.46|:443... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> > > 2015-03-10 22:02:09 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> > >
> > > !!! Couldn't download 'google-chrome-stable_41.0.2272.76-1_amd64.deb'.
> > > Aborting.
> > >
> > >  * Fetch failed for
> >
> > 'www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1', Log
> >
> > > file:
> > >  *  '/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/chrome-binary-
> > >
> > > plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1/temp/build.log'
> > >
> > >  * Please wait 24 hours and sync your portage tree before reporting
fetch
> > >
> > > failures.
> >
> > I don't use the package but tried to fetch it to test.  Same failure
> > here too.   Can you force it to use a different mirror or is it google's
> > and that's it?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> Thanks Dale, I'm guessing google is the only repo, at least that's the
SRC_URI 
> coded in the ebuild.
>
>

Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only good for 
a short while after it gets marked stable.
Just keyword the unstable package. 

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez