On 8/23/06, Sean <tech.junk@...> wrote:
>         But unfortunately it has not gone well. Started in section 2.6 where
> you are to emerge xorg-xll, and right after it starts, it fails.
> Rewritten here
> !!! Digest verification failed:
> !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/kbproto-1.0.2.tar.bz2
> !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
> !!! Got: 57853
> !!! Expected: 57843
>
> Obviously there is a size issue, and I cleaned out everything with
> eclean to force fetches.

Delete the offending distfiles and let them be downloaded again.  FYI,
eclean only clears out things that are no longer in the portage tree
by default.  Even if you use the destructive option, it doesn't
doesn't remove currently needed ebuilds.

If you still get mismatched files, try a different download mirror.

Alternatively, if you are _really_ _really_ sure that the sources are
good, you can do an "ebuild
/usr/portage/cat-egory/pkg/pkg-version.ebuild digest" to force portage
to accept the current distfile that you have.  This will be undone the
next time you sync, and again, you should be really really sure that
the sources are good, because this will bypass a critical security
feature of portage.

> runs without error, but after looking /usr/X11R6 is still present, so rm
> did not work for some reason.

It should still exist, but it should be a symbolic link to ../usr, not
a directory.

-Richard
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