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Alan Watson wrote:
> Hi - I am trying to update my kernel but having trouble contacting with
> Gentoo as my command keeps. Do you think there is a problem at the Gentoo
> end, or is it possible to access another site?

I think it'ss a problem with the ebuild... you might want to emerge sync
to see if it's been corrected, or edit it manually.

This is why I think so:

You are trying to emerge
>
> # emerge gentoo-sources
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
>>>>emerge (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.26_pre6 to /
>>>>Downloading

As you see, the package is gentoo-sources-2.4.26_pre6.

But emerge is trying to download a file called

>
> http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/gentoo-sources-pre5-pre6
> bz2

which does not (and likely cannot) exist-- the file is either
gentoo-sources-pre5.bz2 (if you were emerging
gentoo-sources-2.4.26_pre5, which you are not) or gentoo-sources-pre6.bz2.

I strongly suspect that the ebuild was just version bumped and there
remains a typo in it. In fact, I'll check:

... and interestingly enough, that ebuild does not even exist on my
system, so I think you have not emerged sync in a while, as a check of
the changelog for gentoo-sources reveals that this ebuild was originally
added on the twenty-sixth of March of this year, and was presumably
removed when the pre-releases went to full versions and ebuilds became
available in April or June:


*gentoo-sources-2.4.26_pre6 (26 Mar 2004)

26 Mar 2004; Bob Johnson <livewire@gentoo.org>
gentoo-sources-2.4.26_pre6.ebuild:
Bumped ~x86 to pre6

*gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r1 (10 Jun 2004)

10 Jun 2004; <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> +gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r1.ebuild:
Version bump.

Since in June there is a full release ebuild, there's no real reason to
keep the pre release kernels around, but the changelog does not mention
removing them (except for a general "removal of some older revisions"
comment in mid-April.

In any case, this all suggests that that ebuild (and thus the files it
wants to download) has not been available for several months now, to
those who sync regularly (unless you got the ebuild out of the Attic for
some reason).


> !!! Couldn't download gentoo-sources-pre5-pre6.bz2. Aborting.

Doesn't look like you're supposed to be, one way or another. I would
first suggest and emerge sync and upgrading to a current version of
gentoo-sources (the current highest stable version is 2.4.26-r9). If you
really want to use this old ebuild, it is possible, but a lot of work.

Hope this helps,
Holly


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