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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own |
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> >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. |
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> >> Message follows: |
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> >> |
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> >> * Running emerge --sync |
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> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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> >> NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE |
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> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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> >> |
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> >> If you are seeing this message, you are not in |
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> >> the right place. Please check our website |
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> >> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper |
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> >> hostnames for connection. This host no longer |
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> >> contains data. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage' |
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> >> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at |
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> >> main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] |
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> >> |
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> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> >> ** April 21, 2009 |
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> >> ... And so on |
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> > |
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> > If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things |
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> go |
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> > south, you *could* use mine: |
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> > |
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> > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/" |
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> > SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage" |
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> > |
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> > That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to |
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> speak |
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> > to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to |
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> find |
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> > ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think |
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> they |
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> > just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys |
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> - not |
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> > that there's anything wrong in that :-) |
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> Interesting offer, but I found "mirrorselect" on my own in the |
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> meantime, and first in its list is a site |
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> that I know is a 2-hour drive away (my grad school alma mater), and I |
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> like to keep global load down... |
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> not that I have anything against Cisco. |
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> Thnaks for the offer, though. |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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Mirrorselect is certainly your friend, and described in the Gentoo Handbook. |
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If you haven't already, I would use it to select a rsync mirror, too. |
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- Mark Shields |
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