sys-libs/zlib-1.2.13-r2 fails to download source tarballs due to file extension change in the file server. A quick visit to 'https://zlib.net/fossils/' shows that the files are now .tar.gz instead of .tar.xz Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -f =sys-libs/zlib-1.2.13-r2 Actual Results: ebuild fails to download 'https://zlib.net/fossils/${P}.tar.xz' Expected Results: ebuild downloads 'https://zlib.net/fossils/${P}.tar.gz' 'wget https://zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz' works as expected
Note that gentoo mirrors will still have the file assuming your GENTOO_MIRRORS settings are not broken (which is what would lead to fetch failure). i.e. https://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/0e/zlib-1.2.13.tar.xz
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4efe01ba2e5b6a4696ce14f70006f4ec05ac14ac This is a fascinating change. I thought all historical versions of zlib ever, used gzip -- why did it temporarily switch over to an xz tarball? There's additional context behind the incredible awkwardness, of course -- zlib traditionally provides a couple different tarballs outside of the fossils/ directory, and PGP signatures, but only for the current release -- they get dropped whenever a new release is uploaded. Bizarre. So with verify-sig, you kind of have to rely on a mirror either way.
Created attachment 873860 [details, diff] Updated source tarball URLs Looks like 1.2.13 is available as a .xz(.asc) from Github (https://github.com/madler/zlib/releases/) here's a patch
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #1) > Note that gentoo mirrors will still have the file assuming your > GENTOO_MIRRORS settings are not broken (which is what would lead to fetch > failure). > > i.e. https://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/0e/zlib-1.2.13.tar.xz This was indeed semi-broken on my network. It turns out the local networks http cache proxy was throwing a 403 whenever portage tried to fetch 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/layout.conf' which caused portage to try http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/zlib-1.2.13.tar.xz before the other addresses listed in the ebuild.
