emerge problem

fuzz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 93

When I try to emerge blackbox I get the error

tod · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 4:11 pm Post subject:

Hi!

1. is your network connection up?

2. Have you configured /etc/resolv.conf

fuzz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 93

yes and yes it's was done during installation

rachaef · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject:

Well, either your name server is unreachable at the moment or the resolve couldn't be done because of some problem in your system. If the former is the case, maybe you should just try again later or use another nameserver. Otherwise - are you using some kind of firewall? When exactly did this problem appear for the first time and can you think of something, that has changed on your system short time before?

fuzz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 93

It happened right after I install gentoo and loged in for the first time. It hasn't work from the begining. I use to work with the old version of gentoo, but I tryed installing that again and that didn't work to well. 1.1a is the only one that now installes correctly, and emerge doesn't work.

Guest · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 2:56 pm Post subject:

It happened to me too. This is a sourceforge fault.
The have switched to some kind of mirror system. Every download you make is a 5-8K html page.
The page requests you to set your preferred mirror.
The easy solution seems to edit your local ebuilds to point some sf mirror.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Or you could just emerge fluxbox instead, kinda like blackbox++

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spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

I'm having the same problem too when I do an emerge kde or gnome. it starts downloading then stops and then I get the ERROR 404: not found. I didn't have that problem the day before when I installed gentoo

Guest · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 4:06 pm Post subject:

OK. I repeat: THIS IS A SOURCEFORGE FAULT.

Some of the files to be fetched do not reside on ibiblio (I do not know why).

Then, emerge will look at the "original" source to get the file.

The original source for most of the files is prdownloads.sourceforge.net

And it no longer allows "Direct" downloads. What all you download is a redirector HTML page (named gqview-x.y.z.tar.gz)

I think ibiblio mirror tries to download them, and when the MD5 sum does not match, it erases the files... I am not sure

You can edit the .ebuild files to point to
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/projectname/projectname-version.tbz2
(or whatever) to "temporaryly" fix the problem. -- by the way my name is Sukru

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

ok Sukru how do I edit the ebuild files or should I say which ebuild files? and don't get mad.

Guest · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject:

It happened to me for gqview (you may have already guessed).

The ebuild file is in
/usr/portage/media-gfx/gqview

To find which .ebuild file to edit
emerge --pretend gqview

For *ME* it's gqview-1.0.2-r1.ebuild
vi gqview-1.0.2-r1.ebuild

You'll see SRC_URL="..." at some place near top.
It starts with http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...
I did change it to ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/gqview/${P}.tar.gz
(I only changed the beginningof the URL. {$P} is part of the script.)

Guest · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 4:29 pm Post subject:

WARNING: Don't forget to remove
/usr/portage/distfiles/gqview-*

Otherwise, it try to "resume" the file. That will be no helpful.

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

thanks

friedmud · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 8:37 pm Post subject: Or

You could make an entry in your "hosts" file that points prdownloads.sourceforge.net to the ip of one of the mirrors.

Derek

fuzz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 93

thanks for all your help all is going great now