Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

[Matti Nykyri]

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 11:59, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:45:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2015 18:42, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> On 2015-11-12, <wabenbau@×××××.com> <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my
>>>>> "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files
>>>>> are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update:
>
> [ .... ]
>
>> The dev are doing some $MAGIC to reinstate ChangeLogs and the first run
>> is expected to take a while (i.e. several hours). I suppose you can
>> expect some breakage till it finishes.
>
>> It's being discussed and tracked on gentoo-dev, you can drop a mail
>> there with specifics to let the devs know what's happening.
>
> Three days later.  I'm still getting this error message, but with a nasty
> twist in the tail.  emerge -puND @world reports (amongst others) the
> following update:
>
>    [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/busybox-1.23.1-r1  USE="-pam*"
>
> , and the error message I get on actually trying to start the update is
>
>    !!! Digest verification failed:
>    !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-9999.ebuild
>    !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
>    !!! Got: 8493
>    !!! Expected: 8580
>
> .  Why is the build system looking at the digest for version 9999 when it
> should be rebuilding version 1.23.1-r1?

Well it's not. It just checks all the manifests and complains about errors. It doesn't affect the building of 1.23.1-r1.

If I were you I'ld download the latest portage snapshot. That should take care of any remaining issues. Is your portage upto date?

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-M