Hello, Martin. On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 02:56:42PM +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-9999.ebuild > > !!! Got: 8493 > > !!! Expected: 8580
> Do you use the default (rsync) for syncing, or have you changed > the method? rsync all the time. > I have the above claimed filesize (8493), but the Manifest > I obtained from rsync is correct. > The timestamp of the Manifest file in that folder is > Nov 13, 08:17:31 (UTC) I have 07:17:31 +0000 for Manifest and ChangeLog. Are you sure your 08:17:31 isn't central European time? > (do not forget to export TZ=UTC when you check the date). > Exactly the same date has the ChangeLog file in that folder > (which is not surprsing). It does indeed. > If in your case ChangeLog and Manifest *both* have an older date, > you got the data perhaps from an outdated mirror. > If ChangeLog has the same date, but Manifest is older (or newer > and still wrong), something strange is going on. In such a case, > one should also consider reasons like local filesystem errors. I don't think I've got a filesystem error: ext3 is tried and tested. After downloading /etc/portage via rsync again, I still get the same error. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

