On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Stroller uttered the following immortal words, > > On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:35 am, riki wrote: > > > I get a lot of downloading errors when using emerge. Usually it cannot > > find the necessary files on the mirror I'm using. I have to the google > > for the file, download it and place it in the /usr/portage/distfiles > > directory, then emerge again. > > Does your FETCHCOMMAND in /etc/make.conf have --passive-ftp enabled..? > I see it's set default, so this is unlikely to be the problem, but I > can't think of anything else.
What are the error messages that wget is giving you? Does it connect properly? do you need to go through a proxy? if it is in passive mode then it should work behind a firewall as in passive mode you initiate the connection, where as in PORT mode the server has to initiate a connection. mirrorselect works by running netselect which pings the servers and find a mirror, so if mirror select didnt work that means that something is probably not letting you ping the outside world. Just try the following commands ping www.google.com wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.2.bz2 and post the output please. Grendel -- -- Grendels annoyance filter is so advanced it puts people to the killfile even before they have posted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
