When emerging blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 on x86 for some reason it tries to download the sparc binaries (j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-sparc-gcc3.2.bin) as well as the x86 ones. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Downloads ~40Mb more than necessary Expected Results: Only download the x86 binaries It is possible to work around by deleting line 19 before emerging: SRC_URI="${SRC_URI} sparc? ( ${J_URI}/sparc/${JREV}/j2sdk-${PV}-${JREV}-linux-sparc-gcc3.2.bin )" Portage 2.0.48 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://194.83.57.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga tcltk java guile mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr apache2 doc dvd gtk2 junit kerberos oci8 pda samba sse usb xml -cups -nptl" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -O3 -falign-functions=4 -fPIC -finline-functions -fforce-addr -mfpmath=sse" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -O3 -falign-functions=4 -fPIC -finline-functions -fforce-addr -mfpmath=sse" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache cvs noclean noauto distcc buildpkg fixpackages"
This is because you have on FEATURES="" cvs and this is what that features does, remove it, and you should see this problem solved.