sys-boot/os-prober-1.47's source file os-prober_1.47.tar.gz from debain's repos no longer exists in the standard repos. a fetch error is returned. The proper sources exist on snapshot.debian.org
That's perfectly fine because Gentoo mirrors have it. $ sudo emerge -f sys-boot/os-prober These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-boot/os-prober-1.47 25 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 25 kB >>> Fetching (1 of 1) sys-boot/os-prober-1.47 >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' --2012-03-30 06:26:33-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 156.56.247.195, 216.165.129.135, 137.226.34.42, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|156.56.247.195|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24896 (24K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' 100%[======================================>] 24,896 42.7K/s in 0.6s 2012-03-30 06:26:34 (42.7 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/os-prober_1.47.tar.gz' saved [24896/24896] * os-prober_1.47.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
