webrsync

kaltekar · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

I'm trying to update the portage tree during the install and can't rsync because of the firewall, so I am using webrsync. Trouble is that it says there is no md5sum present on the rsync mirror, any of them, I've tried them all. Help!

grunthus · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

When I run emerge-webrsync from behind tight-ass firewalls that block everything bar port 80, I find it quite normal for the current dated md5sums to be not found. Presumably the portage tarball for the current day has not yet been uploaded to the server(s) in question. I can think of two things to do:

1. Wait a bit. The thing usually takes several minutes to get going. If you can run gkrellm on eth0 to monitor the network traffic since emerge-webrsync does not give a lot of output for a while

2. Check your box's date: run this command:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

Hi.

If in the end you just can't use webrsync, but you're able to use a web browser, you can download the latest portage snapshot from any mirror on .../gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2. Alll you need to do then is to extract the snapshot into /usr/portage with:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

I'm in the same situation, but you could try using tor or proxychains - one of them should work.
I use now tor (because proxychains needs special sort of http-proxy to work) in the following way
torify emerge --sync
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quade · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 18

Hey, for what it's worth, I was getting the exact same thing just now. My company firewall is very prohibitive, and only port 80 traffic is unhindered. I looked at /etc/make.conf and had originally selected a few FTP sites in my list of mirrors. Those use port 21, obviously. I removed all non-web mirrors, and can now use emerge-webrsync just fine.