This was supposedly fixed in Bug 609290 but the files were missing for me when I tried a week ago- and today. * Bootstrapping prefix-portage * Fetching prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2 --2018-02-11 11:19:43-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2 Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.233.100, 216.165.129.135, 64.50.236.52, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.233.100|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2018-02-11 11:19:43 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2018-02-11 11:19:43-- http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles/prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2 Resolving dev.gentoo.org... 140.211.166.183 Connecting to dev.gentoo.org|140.211.166.183|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles/prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2 [following] https://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles/prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2: HTTPS support not compiled in. !!! downloading http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles/prefix-portage-2.3.18.tar.bz2 failed! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run bootstrap-bash.sh 2. Run bootstrap-prefix.sh
Worked around this by overriding FETCH_COMMAND to use curl, which is the system curl. That allows stage1 to complete but then stage2 fails with a similar error: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-config-5-r03.4::gentoo_prefix >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/binutils-config-ldwrapper-5.3.4.c' --2018-02-11 12:16:50-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/binutils-config-ldwrapper-5.3.4.c Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.233.100, 216.165.129.135, 64.50.236.52, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.233.100|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2018-02-11 12:16:50 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/plain/sys-devel/binutils-config/files/ldwrapper.c?id=edc0d44f70c27daebcc080ac5d08e8e191bccd95' https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/plain/sys-devel/binutils-config/files/ldwrapper.c?id=edc0d44f70c27daebcc080ac5d08e8e191bccd95: HTTPS support not compiled in. !!! Couldn't download 'binutils-config-ldwrapper-5.3.4.c'. Aborting.
it's worse, I forgot to upload the package to the mirrors.
(yes, it's getting annoying, I'm pondering about making ssl "optimistic": try it, if it fails disable it)
Thanks, it gets a lot farther now. Fails in stage3 (as you may know) due to Bug 647410.
ok, thanks, closing this one for now then