root@condor:/root(34)# emerge -vuD octave-forge-meta ... Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.203|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/octave/symbolic-1.0.6.tar.gz [following] 20 redirections exceeded. !!! Couldn't download 'symbolic-1.0.6.tar.gz'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'sci-mathematics/octave-forge-symbolic-1.0.6' * Messages for package sci-mathematics/octave-forge-symbolic-1.0.6: * Fetch failed for 'sci-mathematics/octave-forge-symbolic-1.0.6' Should I send this problem to octave mailing list? Reproducible: Always
Contact the poeple behind the overlay, please. We don't suppport these.
Although this is closed: I just downloaded the file octave-forge-bundle-20080507.tar.gz from SourceForge, extracted from it the file symbolic-1.0.6.tar.gz, copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles and the everything was OK. For some reason the original file cannot be downloaded directly.