[ale] emerge sync -vs- emerge-webrsync in Gentoo

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Ok, another update.  The emerge-webrsync didn't work either (in my situation). 
After some digging, I found that I wasn't getting out at all.  I didn't have any
network type utilities (ping, route, etc.) in the chrooted version (/mnt/gentoo)
that I was using, so I was going to another virt terminal, which showed that I
was able to resolve, ping, etc. all of the necessary sites.  Then, I'd go back
into my chroot'd terminal, and nothing worked.  I copied ping into
/mnt/gentoo/bin and tried to ping the address that emerge sync was trying to
connect to and BAM, no dice.  cat /etc/resolve.conf showed that I had the right
dns server in there, but I didn't have nslookup (in either place that I could
find).  I put a static entry for rsync.gentoo.com in /etc/hosts , fired up
emerge sync, and BAM, there it went. 


Quoting "Nathan J. Underwood" <lists at cybertechcafe.net>:

> I just did an "emerge-webrsync", and then checked the /usr/portage
> directory,
> and it was empty.  I'm operating on the assumption that there should be
> something in there.
> 
> nathan
> 
> Quoting "Nath
> 
> an J. Underwood" <lists at cybertechcafe.net>:
> 
> > I'm dipping into the Gentoo waters, and have an install started.  This is
> my
> > 3rd
> > attempt (don't ask) at the install, and I'm being a little more cautious
> > this
> > time.  Last time (earlier today), I got to the point of doing the
> > scripts/bootstrap.sh, but found that there was nothing in the /usr/portage
> > directory.  I remembered [then] that when I had originally unzipped the
> > stage1
> > tarball (the logic was, since I've never done it before, I'll start with
> the
> > hardest.  The logic seemed more clear then), and did the emerg sync, that
> > after
> > 3 retries I got an error.  The error said that if I was behind a firewall,
> I
> > may
> > need to do an emerge-webrsync, so I did, and proceeded on.  Now, I've
> > started
> > the install over (the docs said that on a 1.2GHz box the bootstrap phase
> took
> > 2
> > hours, and I'm on a 300MHz box), and I'm at the emerge sync portion again. 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > My question is this:  Will the emerge-webrsync work [during the initial
> > install], or do I need to do some firewall tinkerin' so that an emerge
> sync
> > will
> > work?
> > 
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