I did 'emerge sync' which successfully updated the portage list. But when I did 'emerge system' (following the installation manual on CD) I got an error saying that file was not found for m4_1.4-15.diff.gz. Emerge is trying to fetch the file from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/m4/m4_1.4-15.diff.gz which throws a 404. I tried to access http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/m4/ but don't seem to find the file in question. Please be advised that I am attempting to make a fresh installation of gentoo from Stage 2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge -p system 3. emerge system Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-devel/m4-1.4 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 [4.0.14-r2] [ebuild N ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r7 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r4 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r7 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.11 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 [1.8.6.8-r1] [ebuild N ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 [ebuild N ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r7 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/readline-4.3-r4 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.6-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 [2.0.49-r4] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge. You may avoid the remerging of packages by updating portage on its own. [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r6 [2.14.90.0.6-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r2 [3.2.3-r1] [ebuild N ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25 [ebuild N ] app-shells/sash-3.4-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/slang-1.4.9 [ebuild N ] app-editors/nano-1.2.2 [ebuild N ] net-misc/iputils-020927 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 [ebuild N ] net-misc/rsync-2.5.6-r3 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6k [ebuild N ] net-misc/wget-1.8.2-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/kbd-1.06-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/cpio-2.5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/help2man-1.29 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.4-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.33 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/fbset-2.1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/file-4.02 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/gzip-1.3.3-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.4 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/less-381 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.60 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r7 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.9 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/setserial-2.17-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sharutils-4.2.1-r6 [ebuild N ] app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/which-2.14 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bin86-0.16.0 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bison-1.35 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/make-3.80 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 [5.3-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4-r2 [1.1.4-r1] [ebuild N ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6 [ebuild N ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2 [ebuild N ] sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r3 ---------------------------------===============------------------------ !!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' to update !!! the environment of this terminal and possibly other terminals also. Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, [unavailable], glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-gss i686 Pentium III (Katmai) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib jp eg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pa m pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib berkdb"
it seems as if your GENTOO_MIRRORS variable is set to "". Try to adding some Gentoo mirrors. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
Try setting your PORTAGE_MIRRORS in /etc/make.conf and this will go away. I was able to fetch the diff with no problems from ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ Resolving as invalid.
