emerge xfree-4.3.0-r5 tries to download a file called "!bindist?" and certainly fails Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xfree Actual Results: stopped emerging xfree Expected Results: emerge xfree Changing the line 113: <<< truetype? ( !bindist? ( ${MS_FONT_URLS} ) )" >>> truetype? ( ${MS_FONT_URLS} )" and 136: <<< truetype? ( !bindist? ( app-arch/cabextract ) ) >>> truetype? ( app-arch/cabextract ) in xfree-4.3.0-r5.ebuild fixed the problem for me. -- # emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3 i586 AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i586 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i586 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache cvs sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/mnt/nfs/buster/disk0/linux/gentoo/packages/i586/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb jack java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oav odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Remove cvs from FEATURES for now, this will supposedly be fixed in the next portage release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26440 ***