> On Nov 15, 2015, at 11:59, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:45:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 12/11/2015 18:42, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2015-11-12, <waben...@gmail.com> <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my >>>>> "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files >>>>> are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update: > > [ .... ] > >> The dev are doing some $MAGIC to reinstate ChangeLogs and the first run >> is expected to take a while (i.e. several hours). I suppose you can >> expect some breakage till it finishes. > >> It's being discussed and tracked on gentoo-dev, you can drop a mail >> there with specifics to let the devs know what's happening. > > Three days later. I'm still getting this error message, but with a nasty > twist in the tail. emerge -puND @world reports (amongst others) the > following update: > > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/busybox-1.23.1-r1 USE="-pam*" > > , and the error message I get on actually trying to start the update is > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-9999.ebuild > !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size > !!! Got: 8493 > !!! Expected: 8580 > > . Why is the build system looking at the digest for version 9999 when it > should be rebuilding version 1.23.1-r1?
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. If I were you I'ld download the latest portage snapshot. That should take care of any remaining issues. Is your portage upto date? -- -M