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

[Dow Hurst]

Sounds like the webrsync is working thru http while the emerge sync 
works thru ftp.  Am I right?
Dow


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

>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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