Did an emerge -u world after a sync. Have been doing this for a few days with the same result below. It seems that this version of links is corrupted or there is another problem I am not aware of. Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 33) www-client/links-2.1_pre18 to / >>> Downloading http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 --19:47:12-- http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2' Resolving mirror.aarnet.edu.au... 192.42.62.2 Connecting to mirror.aarnet.edu.au[192.42.62.2]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 19:47:12 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 --19:47:12-- http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2' Resolving public.planetmirror.com... 203.16.234.19, 203.16.234.20, 203.16.234.90, ... Connecting to public.planetmirror.com[203.16.234.19]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 19:47:15 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/clock/links/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 --19:47:15-- ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/clock/links/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2' Resolving atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz... 195.113.31.123 Connecting to atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz[195.113.31.123]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/local/clock/links ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 ... done. Length: 3,884,871 (unauthoritative) 100%[====================================>] 3,884,871 24.97K/s ETA 00:00 19:50:03 (23.55 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2' saved [3,884,871] !!! Couldn't download links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2. Aborting. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge -u links (or -u world) 3. see problem above. Actual Results: !!! Couldn't download links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2. Aborting. Expected Results: emerged links 2.1pre18
Confirmed, don't know why this is happening... Sent tarball to Gentoo mirrors, should be up shortly.
This is now fixed it downloaded and emerged successfully today. Thanks for your help. Stuart