This might be a little late, but I've often noticed that sometimes a patch or 'required' file may not exist on the popular mirrors. In those cases, I just do a Google search for the specific file that emerge is looking for, download it manually and place it in '/usr/portage/distfiles'.
<br><br>That is usually sufficient to get me through the emerge.<br><br>HTH,<br><br>-Hani<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adrian Noland</b> <<a href="mailto:anoland@indigente.net">
anoland@indigente.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Collins,<br><br>> My memory has failed. How do I find and communicate to portage other
<br>> mirrors to try for emerge? Or must I wait several days until they get<br>> around to propagating the patches to the standard mirrors?<br>><br>Add additional mirrors to make.conf (all one line)<br><br>GENTOO_MIRRORS="
<a href="http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/">http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/</a><br><a href="ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/">ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/</a><br>
<a href="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/">http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/</a> <a href="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/">ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/</a>"<br>SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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