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

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?