While trying to emerge xlockmore-5.04 it can't locate the main package: The last attempt outputs this: >>> Downloading http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/latest/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 --05:01:57-- http://www.tux.org/%7Ebagleyd/latest/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2' Resolving www.tux.org... done. Connecting to www.tux.org[199.184.165.135]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 05:01:58 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2. Aborting. The package inside the mentioned URL is: xlockmore-5.08ALPHA00.tar.bz2 An alternate URL it's tryint to use is: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 Which also does not exist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xlockmore Actual Results: ix root # emerge xlockmore Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-misc/xlockmore-5.04 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu//distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 --05:15:37-- http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu//distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2' Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... done. Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu[128.193.0.3]:80... failed: Connection refused. >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 --05:15:38-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... done. Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.109]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 05:15:39 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/latest/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 --05:15:39-- http://www.tux.org/%7Ebagleyd/latest/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2' Resolving www.tux.org... done. Connecting to www.tux.org[199.184.165.135]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 05:15:40 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download xlockmore-5.04.tar.bz2. Aborting.
SRC_URI is still broken, but I put the tarball into distfiles.
fixed src_uri.
It works now. Just need to say: Most impressive response and solution time. Thank you.