On 5/6/21 7:42 AM, n952162 wrote:
> On 5/6/21 7:30 AM, n952162 wrote:
>> On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the
>>>> machines
>>>> needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one, which isn't any
>>>> different than the others, has 0 to update, after running --sync.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have an explanation for that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The manifest verification failed during emerge --sync and you didn't
>>> notice it. Happens to me every time.
>>>
>>
>> Yes!  It did!  It does, every time!  But why?  I have enough disk
>> space...
>>
>>
>>
>
> This forum entry from 2018:
>
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html
> <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html>
>
> lists various possible causes, all of which involve complicated or
> expensive fixes:
>
>  1. with "hard-links"
>  2. without "hard-links"
>  3. /usr/portage is corrupted (/var/db/repos/gentoo in my case, I guess)
>  4. rsync-excludes?
>  5. use a different mirror (but it works for other machines)
>
> Is there a consensus in the mean time?
>
>

Here's the error:

  * Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine
...!!! Manifest verification failed:
Manifest mismatch for metadata/Manifest.gz
   __size__: expected: 3019, have: 3011

I diffed the two metadata/Manifest.gz files, here as a png to retain the
spacing.

I'm not sure what __size__ is being displayed there.