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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 22:16:34
Message-Id: 20160529011616.14c8f7caf95eabce113d2582@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file by Thanasis
1 On Mon, 23 May 2016 15:57:35 +0300 Thanasis wrote:
2 > On 05/23/2016 03:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > >
5 > > The other question is: why are you using wget when eix already has the
6 > > facility to download and import this file built in.
7 > >
8 > >
9 > Hmmm, I suspect, that *should* be the reason why it fails for me ...
10 > However, I don't remember having specified the use *wget* somewhere ...
11 >
12 > /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc has everything commented out...
13 >
14 > So, I run the following to get a log and here is how it goes ...
15 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
16 > eix-remote update 2>&1 |tee log
17
18 eix-remote update
19
20 works fine here, http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2
21 is also available via any tool (e.g. wget).
22
23 Maybe it was a temporary server glitch or some provider issues.
24
25 However,
26 eix-remote update2
27 fails for me for a long time (over a year, I guess).
28
29 Best regards,
30 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>