Re: gentoo/wget fails during 'emerge system' (ipv6 enabled)

[ari <edelkind-debug@episec.com>]

edelkind-debug@episec.com said this stuff:

> 'emerge system' fails with the following wget error:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> --14:09:59-- ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/aeb/linux-local/utils/kbd/kbd-1.08.tar.gz
>   (try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/kbd-1.08.tar.gz'
> Connecting to ftp.win.tue.nl[131.155.71.89]:21... failed: Address family not supported by protocol.
> Giving up.
> 
> !!! Couldn't download kbd-1.08.tar.gz. Aborting.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have 'ipv6' listed in the USE variable; this is a likely contributor
> to the problem, coupled with limited ipv6 support in wget.
> 
> Researching.
> 
> ari

Further data:

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# emerge -ep system

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

Calculating system dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20030708  
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r2  
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r4  
[...]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7c  
[ebuild  N    ] net-misc/wget-1.9         <--- installs wget
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/kbd-1.08-r3      <--- then kbd-1.08-r3
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/cpio-2.5  
[...]
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The problem was introduced when wget 1.9 was installed.

Researching.

ari