I've tried for two days now to update my system and it can't dl tar-1.14.90. I've tried both with and without GENTOO_MIRRORS set. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge system -Du 2. emerge tar -u 3. Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-arch/tar-1.14.90 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2 --21:52:52-- http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2 => `/tmp/usr/portage/distfiles/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2' Resolving gentoo.mirrors.pair.com... 216.92.2.140 Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.pair.com[216.92.2.140]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 21:52:52 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2 --21:52:52-- http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2 => `/tmp/usr/portage/distfiles/tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2' Resolving alpha.gnu.org... 199.232.41.11 Connecting to alpha.gnu.org[199.232.41.11]:80... failed: Connection timed out. Giving up. !!! Couldn't download tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /tmp/usr/portage/app-arch/tar/tar-1.14.90.ebuild failed, continuing... !!! Some fetch errors were encountered. Please see above for details. Expected Results: Download and emerge tar-1.14.90 emerge info: Portage 2.0.51_rc8 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r6 i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=c3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=c3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/tmp/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/tmp/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/tmp/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3ds X X509 Xaw3d aalib acpi acpi4linux activefilter adns alsa apache2 athena atlas audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoia chroot cle266 crypt cscope cups curl dedicated dga dillo divx4linux djbfft dnd dv dvd dvdread edl emacs encode escreen esd ethereal f77 faac faad fdftk fftw flac flash fltk fluidsynth fmod foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glade gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq idl imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 jabber jack jack-caps jack-tmpfs jpeg ladcca lcms libcaca libwww live lufsusermount mad mbox mcal md5sum mikmod mmx mng mono motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn ncurses net network nogcj nomac nomultilib nptl objc oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam parse-clocks pcap pda pdflib perl plotutils png ppds prelude python qt quicktime radeon readline rtc ruby ruby18 sdl sftplogging skey slp sox speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales videos wmf wxwindows x86 xgetdefault xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib video_cards_radeon"
I understand that this should appear on the gentoo mirrors shortly
OK, thanks!
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