The portage tree snapshot of 6/27/2003 is incomplete. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Download portage tree snapshot at <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030627.tar.bz2>. Actual Results: Oonly the first few categories (app-...) are contained in the tarball.
new snapshot already created (todays) http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/snapshots/portage-20030628.tar.bz2
Something appears to be strange about the mirrors. <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/> doesn't have the most current snapshot, but <http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/snapshots/> has. That may have caused the broken tarball. After all, the reported file has now more than 8 megs and seems to be complete. Maybe there is a bad connection to the mirrors?