Tried to emerge evolution on my Gentoo Alpha box, see Additional Information section from output from emerge. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome-vfs or an application depending on gnome-vfs 2. 3. Actual Results: !!! Couldn't download gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch. Aborting. Expected Results: Successful emerge Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r12, 2.4.30 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.30 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 6 2005, 10:36:49)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups doc encode esd fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Output from emerge: >>> Downloading http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch --19:03:03-- http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch => `/usr/portage/distfiles/gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch' Resolving open-systems.ufl.edu... 128.227.74.67 Connecting to open-systems.ufl.edu[128.227.74.67]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 19:03:04 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch. Aborting.
This is because gnome-vfs 2.8.x is not in portage anymore, so it's download files were removed. Try syncing and re-emerging, and you'll get gnome-vfs-2.10.0-r2 (currently stable on alpha).