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From: Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge perl-cleaner: Digest verification Failed:
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:11:53
Message-Id: 4479F40C.7020108@vista-express.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge perl-cleaner: Digest verification Failed: by Colleen Beamer
1 Colleen Beamer wrote:
2
3 >Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >
7 >>Erase /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz and re-emerge
8 >>*may* fix it. Worked for me.
9 >>
10 >>- Mark
11 >>
12 >>On 5/28/06, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote:
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>
16 >>>Hi,
17 >>>
18 >>>today emerge showed me following error while updating perl-cleaner:
19 >>>
20 >>>!!! Digest verification Failed:
21 >>>!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz
22 >>>!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
23 >>>
24 >>>How can I fix it?
25 >>>
26 >>>Jarry
27 >>>
28 >>>--
29 >>>gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
30 >>>
31 >>>
32 >Although I have read that removing
33 >/usr/portage/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz has worked for others,
34 >it didn't work for me. What did work was getting it from another mirror.
35 >
36 >I hadn't changed mirrors since I installed Gentoo a year and a half
37 >ago. This document helped me. I don't know if the more knowledgeable
38 >Gentoo users will think this is the best way to go, but it worked for me
39 >to set another mirror.
40 >
41 >http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/mirrors/
42 >
43 >Regards,
44 >
45 >Colleen
46 >
47 >
48 >
49
50 You likely deleted the old on from yours but the mirror still has the
51 old one so you just got the one you just deleted back again. I deleted
52 mine and it worked fine. Maybe the people that run the mirror need to
53 remove their old copy.
54
55 Dale
56 :-)
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