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

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:20:25 AM Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 23:33:33 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > 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-stabl
> > > > e/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.
>
> So users of the stable package have to be really fast, or lucky?
>
>

Right. Or put emerge www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins --fetchonly on a cron 
job to fetch it as soon as it's stable.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez