When trying to emerge app-arch/rpm, the fetch step fails, since the releases are no longer distributed from rpm.org, but rather from ftp.rpm.org. I.e. we are currently trying to fetch sources from http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.11.x/rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2, but they have moved and now reside at http://ftp.rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.11.x/rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2 From cursory look, all versions are affected. Please see emerge output below: # emerge -v app-arch/rpm These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1::gentoo USE="acl nls -caps -doc -lua -python (-selinux)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 3,585 KiB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,585 KiB >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1::gentoo >>> Failed to emerge app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1, Log file: >>> '/var/log/portage/build/app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1:20170618-023631.log' >>> Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 failed Load avg: 0.59, 0.60, 0.57 >>> Downloading 'rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/distfiles/rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2' Welcome to rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.34.228). This server is part of the SunSITE Central Europe and is located in Aachen, Germany (http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de). receiving incremental file list rsync: change_dir "/distfiles" (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory (2) sent 8 bytes received 110 bytes 78.67 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1650) [Receiver=3.1.2] >>> Downloading 'http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.11.x/rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2' --2017-06-18 02:36:32-- http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.11.x/rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2 Resolving rpm.org... 192.30.252.153, 192.30.252.154 Connecting to rpm.org|192.30.252.153|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2017-06-18 02:36:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'rpm-4.11.0.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1', Log file: * '/var/log/portage/build/app-arch/rpm-4.11.0.1:20170618-023631.log'
You appear to be using a bad value for GENTOO_MIRRORS.
This appears to be the case, thank you. I have GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" (and previously - GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://rsync.at.gentoo.org" that has the same problem), which was chosen via mirrorselect. Setting GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" does indeed work around the problem. However, I claim that the problem still exists, as the current SRC_URI no longer works, and should be updated. Curiously, I believe I've had bad GENTOO_MIRRORS for half a year now, and this is the first package that broke on me this way.
Sure, SRC_URI should still contain a fetchable distfile even though we strongly recommend everyone use valid GENTOO_MIRRORS.
looks fixed in 4.14.1
