I had my portage mirror fail on me temporarily, thus emerge resorted to the upstream SRC_URI to fetch the udev-171 tarball from "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-171.tar.bz2". However, the file is no longer on the server, which leads to a 404 Not Found error. I am not sure wether this is really a bug in the ebuild (the fallback upstream-URI is no longer valid), or if the mirror is to blame for being down / not providing the necessary distfiles according to its ebuilds. The actual question would be wether portage relies on the availability of a mirror only for synching the tree or also during build time, of which i would expect the former. The workaround is of course to use a working mirror, but as stated above, i would not expect portage to rely on a working mirror during build time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. synch tree with working mirror 2. have mirror go down temporarily 3. emerge udev-171-r8 Actual Results: >>> Downloading 'http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-171.tar.bz2' --2012-10-31 11:36:09-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-171.tar.bz2 Resolving www.kernel.org... 149.20.20.133, 149.20.4.69 Connecting to www.kernel.org|149.20.20.133|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found Expected Results: File is found on upstream server and emerge succeeds. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.11.9 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.4.9-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.9-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6750_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.5.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo proaudio pd-overlay bzk Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ 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APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
This isn't really a bug at all, well, maybe a bug in the mirror you were using. Use more mirrors or don't set mirror at all in make.conf and then it will resort to working one. But I've made an exception with 171-r8: 01 Nov 2012; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> udev-171-r8.ebuild: Update HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI from latest stable wrt #440408 But please don't file "bugs" like these more, if you need help setting up your make.conf, use http://forums.gentoo.org/
I tried to state clearly that I'm not sure it's a bug in portage, the question being wether portage relies on a working gentoo mirror during package _build time_ (not only for syncing the tree). Since this seems to be the case (which I would have expected otherwise), this renders this "bug" report invalid, of course. Thanks for bothering!
