I did an "emerge --sync" and was told that I needed to emerge an updated portage. When I did, I got the following sequence. gander atorrey # emerge portage >>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r2 [2.1.1-r1] USE="doc -build (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 5 kB Total size of downloads: 5 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r2 to / * portage-2.1.1.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * portage-2.1.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-)...[ ok ] * portage-2.1.1.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...[ ok ] * portage-2.1.1.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...[ ok ] * portage-2.1.1.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Downloading 'ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/portage-2.1.1-r2.patch.bz2' --18:19:00-- ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/portage-2.1.1-r2.patch.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.1.1-r2.patch.bz2' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.46.7.109|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR portage-2.1.1-r2.patch.bz2 ... done. Length: 5,263 (5.1K) (unauthoritative) 100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 5,263 --.--K/s 18:19:01 (38.65 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.1.1-r2.patch.bz2' saved [5263] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ !! ] !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: '/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.1.2_rc2.ebuild' ----------- At the above error the system exited. Repeated efforts got the same results.
*** Bug 156257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Apparently you just need to sync again. That ebuild is not listed in the latest Manifest: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/Manifest