There is an existing bug (9449, which was marked as a duplicate of 9268 because of a separate issue) that shows this as fixed, but I'm still getting the same behavior described in Comment #5 of that bug (from 3 months ago). Yes, this was after the freshest of rsync's. (Note: It does still work if you follow the instructions in the error.) To wit: bash-2.05a# emerge java-sdk-docs Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.1 to / >>> Unpacking source... !!! ERROR: dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.1 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 17, Exitcode 0 !!! Please download j2sdk-1_4_1-doc.zip from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles
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