Currently, the PATCH_VER variable in the ebuild is set to '5' which causes the ebuild to look for a file named glibc-2.9-patches-5.tar.bz2 which doesn't exist on any mirrors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. unmask sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 3. emerge glibc
@vapier: confirmed it is not located in its normal place: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/dist/
it shouldnt be ver 5 yet http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2.ebuild?r1=1.4&r2=1.5