Emerging Problems (Solved, I think)...

[AlexK]

Hi guys,
My exams have finished so I decided to install Gentoo on an old machine I had lying around before I went ahead and installed on my main machine. Well the install went fine, but I am having troubles emerging samba. It seems that the dependancies for samba are available, but the samba package itself is not available. A snippet of the session is given below:

Mars ~ # emerge samba
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-fs/samba-3.0.10 to /
>>> Downloading ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
--18:31:11--  ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... 61.8.0.17
Connecting to mirror.pacific.net.au[61.8.0.17]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /linux/Gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR samba-3.0.10.tar.gz ...
No such file `samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'.

>>> Downloading ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
--18:31:16--  ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.swin.edu.au... 136.186.1.76
Connecting to ftp.swin.edu.au[136.186.1.76]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR samba-3.0.10.tar.gz ...
No such file `samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'.

>>> Downloading http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
--18:31:20--  http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'
Resolving mirror.gentoo.gr.jp... 211.14.6.124
Connecting to mirror.gentoo.gr.jp[211.14.6.124]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:31:21 ERROR 404: Not Found.

>>> Downloading http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
--18:31:21--  http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/samba-3.0.10.tar.gz'
Resolving us1.samba.org... 216.251.47.16
Connecting to us1.samba.org[216.251.47.16]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:31:31 ERROR 404: Not Found.

emerge --search shows the existence of this package, but why can't it be found?

If you need any more info, don't hesitate to ask.

[AlexK]

Ok guys an update:

1. Samba was available on the package cd, so it emerged fine.

But if I try and emerge something without the package cd, the 404 errors still appear. What am I doing wrong?



Solved:::
All I did was change from the Australian mirrors to some US mirrors in make.conf and emerge seemed to work fine after that.