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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thaks Mark, yes your mirrors worked. It makes me wonder what is wrong with |
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> my mirrors (they all failed) :-/ |
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> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ |
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> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ |
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> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ |
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> http://mirror.mdfnet.se/mirror/gentoo" |
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> -- |
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> Joseph |
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Joseph, |
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In all likelihood there is NOTHING wrong with your mirrors. |
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Consider the idea that: |
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1) There are 1000 mirrors out there. (made up number - I have no idea how many) |
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2) There's a glitch in your server or it's internet connection, or |
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it's simply off-line for a short time for maintenance or backups or |
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something. |
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3) The Gentoo-devs push out an update. |
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The result: |
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1) My mirror gets the update |
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2) Your mirror does not, at least for a little while |
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As I'm guessing from these questions that you are relatively new to |
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Gentoo keep in mind that Gentoo is a BIG thing in terms of all the |
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servers around the world that are supporting it. There's no way 999 |
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servers should wait for one more to come on-line. What if it never |
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comes on-line? So they push stuff out, it goes where it can, and where |
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it cannot go it goes later, or never. |
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You get to choose your mirrors. You get to change your mirrors. (Using |
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mirrorselect IIRC) You're free to change them. I have lots of times. |
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WRT your mirrors, I've never used _any_ of them so I don't know they |
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are reliable. |
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I agree with Bruce that http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ tends to be very |
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reliable. I run Gentoo on a number of machine here at home. I |
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purposely use different mirrors on each one to give me a little more |
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redundancy and then rsync between them is one of them cannot get the |
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data from outside. I do use http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ on another |
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machine, just not the one I'm on right now. |
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(And referring to my little initramfs thread, the one that has now |
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booted from an "initramfs inside the kernel" as per Neil's inputs!) |
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<yipee!> |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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