Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Matti.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 01:15:16PM +0200, Matti Nykyri wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 2015, at 13:01, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> >> Well it's not. It just checks all the manifests and complains about
> >> errors. It doesn't affect the building of 1.23.1-r1.

> Ok. I must be using some different switch then.

> > Ah, OK.  But it causes emerge to bail out, so never gets round to
> > building 1.23.1-r1.

> >> If I were you I'ld download the latest portage snapshot. That should
> >> take care of any remaining issues. Is your portage upto date?

I deleted my /usr/portage (with the exception of
/usr/portage/distfiles), and ran emerge --sync again.  I get precisely
the same error message, still.

> > I'd just synched my portage tree immediately before attempting the build.
> > I'll try again tomorrow, in the hope everything will have been sorted out
> > by then.

> Syncing and getting a new snapshot is a bit different. With a snapshot you get a new clean start. Download it and unpack.

> After that check that your portage package is upto date (emerge -av portage).

Yes, my portage is fully up to date.

I think the Gentoo maintainers haven't fixed this problem, yet.

> -- 
> -Matti

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).