On Thursday 12 Nov 2015 18:45:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/11/2015 18:42, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2015-11-12, <waben...@gmail.com> <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.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: > >>> > >>> !!! Digest verification failed: > >>> !!! /usr/portage/dev-libs/libxml2/ChangeLog > >>> !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size > >>> !!! Got: 5221 > >>> !!! Expected: 5038 > >>> > >>> !!! Digest verification failed: > >>> !!! /usr/portage/app-text/iso-codes/ChangeLog > >>> !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size > >>> !!! Got: 4195 > >>> !!! Expected: 4014 > >>> > >>> [ ... and so on for another dozen or so packages ... ] > >>> > >>> I removed the emerge timestamp, sync'ed again, and got the same > >>> result. Based on past experiences, I'm guessing that if I wait a day > >>> or two and sync again the problems will go away. > >>> > >>> But I am curious what causes these temporary breakages. Does anybody > >>> know how this happens? > >> > >> Try it again. I just synced and received new Manifest and Changelog > >> files for every(?) package of the portage tree. But no report of bad > >> digest. > > > > Just for fun, I removed the files from the portage tree that were > > reported as bad, and did another sync. Apparently, the rsync host > > that got chosen that time had just been updated, because it downloaded > > 313 files (I didn't pay much attention to which files exactly), and > > now emerge is happy again. > > > > I assume that the portage trees on the rsync servers from my first two > > attempts were in some intermediate state with new manifist files and > > old ChangeLog files or vice versa. > > > > In the past I've wondered how portage tree updates and rsync servers > > are managed so that people don't run into problems like this more > > often. > > 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.
Yes, and I got 74,000 files transferred this morning. And yesterday a couple of manifests were wrong, but they were corrected soon enough. > 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. -- Rgds Peter
