I have some mirrors listed in make.conf in GENTOOMIRRORS="....". emerging something brings this: >>> Downloading tp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo//distfiles/OOo_1.1.0_source.tar.bz2 tp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo//distfiles/OOo_1.1.0_source.tar.bz2: Unsupported scheme. it always cuts the first letter Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge something bash-2.05b# emerge info /usr/portage/packages Portage 2.0.50_pre5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://egore912/ ftp://egore911/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/ebuilds" SYNC=" USE="X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bindist bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd encode esd faad fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nocd oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp postgres ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Created attachment 22538 [details, diff] little patch to fix it Someone confused start and end here ;) As a workaround remove the trailing slash on your mirror string
Not critical, and already fixed anyway.