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From: wabenbau@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:19:36
Message-Id: 20151112171903.68e1b944@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my
4 > "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files
5 > are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update:
6 >
7 > !!! Digest verification failed:
8 > !!! /usr/portage/dev-libs/libxml2/ChangeLog
9 > !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
10 > !!! Got: 5221
11 > !!! Expected: 5038
12 >
13 > !!! Digest verification failed:
14 > !!! /usr/portage/app-text/iso-codes/ChangeLog
15 > !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
16 > !!! Got: 4195
17 > !!! Expected: 4014
18 >
19 > [ ... and so on for another dozen or so packages ... ]
20 >
21 > I removed the emerge timestamp, sync'ed again, and got the same
22 > result. Based on past experiences, I'm guessing that if I wait a day
23 > or two and sync again the problems will go away.
24 >
25 > But I am curious what causes these temporary breakages. Does anybody
26 > know how this happens?
27
28 Try it again. I just synced and received new Manifest and Changelog
29 files for every(?) package of the portage tree. But no report of bad
30 digest.
31
32 --
33 Regards
34 wabe

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