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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Try wget --no-passive-ftp.
Thanks, this works. But unfortunately, this means that TeXmacs in Gentoo 
Linux is in a shaky position. And I cannot commit the version 1.0.7.18 
unless this network problem is solved (the other possibility is to mirror 
the necessary tarballs on my web page or somewhere else, where they can 
be reached by wget).

Gentoo is a source-based distro. Each user downloads sources and compiles 
them. This is done automatically by portage; wget is used for downloading. 
Source tarballs of all packages currently in Gentoo are cached on Gentoo 
download servers, and all the users download them from these servers. This 
currently works for TeXmacs <=1.0.7.16. But not quite: a user can specify 
an option to bypass Gentoo cache and download directly from the upstream. 
In this case, this user will fail to download TeXmacs. Probably, nobody 
has tried this yet, because there is no bug in Gentoo bugzilla about this.

The situation becomes worse for the new version 1.0.7.18. If I commit 
texmacs-1.0.7.18.ebuild to Gentoo now, the Gentoo cache mechanism will try 
to get the tarball from the upstream, and to distribute it to all Gentoo 
download mirrors. And it will fail.

So, there is no way to commit this new version to Gentoo. Unless I mirror 
it somewhere and change the download url to my personal one. And even the 
users of older versions are in danger - if they dicide not to use the 
Gentoo cache, they will be unable to install TeXmacs.

This is what Gentoo portage says when I try to instruct it to download the 
new version:

dns texmacs # ebuild texmacs-1.0.7.18.ebuild manifest
> > > Downloading 
'ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz'
--2013-03-23 14:11:22-- 
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz
           => ‘/usr/portage/distfiles/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz’
Resolving sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de... 137.226.34.227
Connecting to sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de|137.226.34.227|:21... 
connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> SIZE TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz ...
No such file ‘TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz’.

> > > Downloading 
'ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/tmftp/source/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz'
--2013-03-23 14:11:24-- 
ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/tmftp/source/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz
           => ‘/usr/portage/distfiles/TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz’
Resolving ftp.texmacs.org... 193.55.176.20
Connecting to ftp.texmacs.org|193.55.176.20|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/TeXmacs/tmftp/source ... done.
==> SIZE TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz ... 18532552
==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 193.55.176.20 port 60922: No route to 
host
!!! Couldn't download 'TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz'. Aborting.
!!! Fetch failed for TeXmacs-1.0.7.18-src.tar.gz, can't update Manifest
dns texmacs #

What has changed at ftp.texmacs.org? And why? Is it possible to restore 
the former behaviour? Or have I really to mirror all TeXmacs versions used 
in Gentoo somewhere else?

Andrey