I've noticed on several occasions in the past few months that by the time some packages are marked stable, the version is old enough that sources are no longer available -- so the emerge fails because sources can no longer be downloaded. If I'm lucky I may have a copy of the sources on another machine. If I'm not lucky, I just wait until the next time a new version goes stable and hope that it's not been obsoleted.
This seems to happen regularly with Imagemagick. Version 7.0.8.60 just went stable today, yet it can't be built because version 7.0.8.60 sources can no longer be downloaded. Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't there be a requirement that an ebuild actually be _buildable_ from scratch when it goes stable? -- Grant
