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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:37:05
Message-Id: 1126449018.12199.3.camel@garath.homelinux.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync by Holly Bostick
1 > What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest
2 > stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in
3 > the European pool, but... all of them?
4 >
5 > Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is
6 > rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that
7 > indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, but
8 > maybe it has. I don't particularly want to switch permanently to the US
9 > pool, as that just seems to make more vectors of instability for
10 > everybody, and is not really the point of having continental mirror
11 > pools anyway.
12 >
13 > Anybody got a clue as to what's happening and what, if anything, I can
14 > do to fix it?
15
16 You didn't state which version of rsync, but the versions below 2.6.4 do
17 have timeout issues. See the following bugs:
18
19 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83254
20 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2783
21
22 Regards,
23 Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>