As described at https://bugs.gentoo.org/936287#c0, this is 2) for the infra side. """ 2) On the infra side, there's inconsistency between the host which serves us the binhost Packages index vs the binpkgs themselves. This manifests often as: ``` >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-apps/portage-3.0.65-r1 --2024-07-19 08:00:16-- https://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64/sys-apps/portage/portage-3.0.65-r1-1.gpkg.tar Resolving mirror.bytemark.co.uk... 2001:41c8:20:5fc::13, 2001:41c8:20:5e6::150, 80.68.83.150, ... Connecting to mirror.bytemark.co.uk|2001:41c8:20:5fc::13|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2024-07-19 08:00:16 ERROR 404: Not Found. ``` """
I should've really used bouncer.gentoo.org (or distfiles.gentoo.org?) here as the bytemark thing is seemingly something else (bug 936289).