Trying to install sip-4.8.2, currently the latest stable for amd64, results in a HTTP 404 when trying to fetch the source. >>> Downloading 'http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip4/sip-4.8.2.tar.gz' --2009-11-06 21:08:36-- http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip4/sip-4.8.2.tar.gz Resolving www.riverbankcomputing.com... 209.249.12.202 Connecting to www.riverbankcomputing.com|209.249.12.202|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-11-06 21:08:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'sip-4.8.2.tar.gz'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'dev-python/sip-4.8.2', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sip-4.8.2/temp/build.log'
Post the outpuf of `emerge --info`.
Upstream has the unfortunate habit of pulling old release tarballs. It is still available from Gentoo mirrors tho: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/sip-4.8.2.tar.gz
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 288016 ***