splat root # emerge bin2iso Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-cdr/bin2iso-19b-r1 to / >>> Downloading http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/readme.txt --10:56:30-- http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/readme.txt => `/usr/portage/distfiles/readme.txt' Resolving www.mirror.ac.uk... 212.219.247.16, 212.219.247.17, 212.219.247.18, ... Connecting to www.mirror.ac.uk[212.219.247.16]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 10:56:41 ERROR -1: No data received. >>> Downloading http://users.andara.com/~doiron/bin2iso/readme.txt --10:56:41-- http://users.andara.com/%7Edoiron/bin2iso/readme.txt => `/usr/portage/distfiles/readme.txt' Resolving users.andara.com... 24.222.0.104 Connecting to users.andara.com[24.222.0.104]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 10:56:51 ERROR -1: No data received. !!! Couldn't download readme.txt. Aborting. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. splat root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre19 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.6.1-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ftracer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ftracer -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb crypt encode esd fam flash foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mikmod mldonkeypango mmx mng motif mozilla mozinterfaceinfo moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png prelude python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Ignoring the fact that having readme.txt in distfiles is ugly, everything seems to work fine for me. I think you have a bad mirror. Also, downloading from the original site works for me as well.
This is probably the most bizarre bug I've ever encountered... I cannot, using http or ftp, get any file called readme.txt from any site. If I rename the file, it works fine... I have internet access all right... just so as long as I don't want any file called readme.txt /me goes off to smash his brains out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick.
i didnt make the ebuild :P putting *any* text file on mirrors is evil ... we get dos2unix and unix2dos problems ... fixed in cvsz0r ... got a proper tarball now
