RE: ebuild download sources are melting!

You can work around the download problem by downloading the source by
hand from somewhere (not the main location for the source is usually
listed in the ebuild file) and putting it into /usr/portage/distfiles


Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott A. Friedman [mailto:friedman@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 14:49
To: gentoo-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gentoo-dev] ebuild download sources are melting!


I do not suppose that this is news to anyone but sourceforge's mechanism
to make you download from a mirror is causing problems with .ebuilds
that reference files there.

Also, a question, does emerge and friends always try to download from
www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles first? If so, any corrupted files
stored there (like rep-gtk-0.15.tar.gz at the moment I write this) will
toast any emerge. It would be nice if emerge had a problem with the
download, gunzipping, or digest check it would try another source and
throw away the bad one. Along with some kinda warning at the end so it
can be reported as well.

Scott


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