emerge --sync systematically fails and has done so during occasional attempts over approx. one week. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> Starting svn update... svn: Connection closed unexpectedly Expected Results: Successful update of the portage tree $ svn info /gentoo/usr/portage/ Path: /gentoo/usr/portage URL: svn://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/trunk/prefix-overlay Repository Root: svn://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt Repository UUID: dcf5e38c-c701-0410-9811-92a63bff3de1 Revision: 20287 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: haubi Last Changed Rev: 20287 Last Changed Date: 2008-04-04 17:15:16 +0200 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008)
the box overlays is on sucks. you should expect this kind of thing to keep happening.