Re: Gentoo packages unavailable?

[Yun Mao <yunmao gmail com>]

Hi, I'm using breakmygentoo's overlay here.
but I can't find the .tar.bz2 file in the distfiles folder. Here is
the detailed err msg:

# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv NetworkManager

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-extra/NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205  +crypt -debug
-doc 701 kB [1]

Total size of downloads: 701 kB
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/overlays/bmg-main.alternative
evolution NetworkManager # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -v NetworkManager
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) gnome-extra/NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205 to /
>>> Downloading
http://www.breakmygentoo.net/distfiles/NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205.tar.bz2
--16:45:52--  http://www.breakmygentoo.net/distfiles/NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.breakmygentoo.net... 69.56.180.222
Connecting to www.breakmygentoo.net[69.56.180.222]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
16:45:52 ERROR 404: Not Found.

!!! Couldn't download NetworkManager-0.3.1.050205.tar.bz2. Aborting.


On 5/29/05, Adam Ashley <adam_ashley softhome net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:38 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 17:24 +0200, Jonas wrote:
> > > there are no NetworkManager packages remaining in the Gentoo portage tree.
> > > At least i couldn't find any.
> > >
> > > Anyone still has the ebuilds?
> >
> > NetworkManager ebuilds are availabe here:
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/utopia/
> >
> > HOWEVER, NetworkManager does not yet work reliably on Gentoo.  And since
> > it involves a lot of dependencies that aren't in the tree yet, I'd
> > advise you not to use it.
> >
> > Nathaniel
> 
> If you're not after the latest bleeding edge stuff, the ebuilds at
> www.breakmygentoo.net for the 0.3 branch work perfectly. been running
> with them for over 2 months now and their latest snapshot version i
> havent had any problems with. it just works
> 
> Adam
> 
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