emerge sync - rsync does nothing... (SOLVED)

woZa · Last edited by woZa on Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:56 am; edited 1 time in total

I am doing a fresh stage 3 install of gentoo 1.4 (athlonxp) and have chrooted and got to the emerge sync part of the guide with no problems.

emerge sync

It comes up no usr/portage not found, creating...

Then rsync://rsync. etc...

and just sits there. Nothing downloaded. I am connecting through a proxy and firewall and have set rsync_proxy=server:port in /etc/make.conf

links2 can connect to http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ and download stages so the network is fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:57 pm Post subject:

You are likely behind a firewall that does not allow rsync traffic, try using the alternative emerge-webrsync which will automatically fetch and use snapshots for you. At work I have to use this method given the firewall policy/settings which I am unable to impact or change.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

woZa · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:39 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info. What ports etc do I need to open up to allow rsync? I have port 873 opened up for outgoing connections on the firewall on the host. Any other ports needed for this action.

Thanks again

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

I googled for "commonly used ports rsync" and came up with a nice little chart (I don't know how correct it is though) as hosted by Dead Rat, I mean Red Hat. According to them it is port 873, it appears to indicate that this is the incoming and outgoing, but does not explicitly indicate either way. Here is a link to the chart/document for any interested parties.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon