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 you got the data perhaps from an outdated mirror.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).

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