oliath root # emerge -up tomcat These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-www/tomcat-5.0.25 [5.0.18] goliath root # emerge -ub tomcat Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-www/tomcat-5.0.25 to / >>> Downloading http://mirrors.combose.com/apache/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.25-alpha/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25.tar.gz --05:16:57-- http://mirrors.combose.com/apache/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.25-alpha/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25.tar.gz => `/opt/no_archive/portage/distfiles/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25.tar.gz' Resolving mirrors.combose.com... 66.132.187.208 Connecting to mirrors.combose.com[66.132.187.208]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 05:16:57 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
tomcat-5.0.25 is too old and so the ebuild's SRC_URI is broken. It can now be downloaded from Aparche archives only: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.25/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25.tar.gz
Thanks Ebuilds for 4.1.30 and 5.0.27 added (slot'ed)