The md5 digests for the ebuild of the application program 'cdrecord' are missing.
this is soo strange. app-cdr/cdrecord is removed from CVS, still people using rsync get this. you should use app-cdr/cdrtools which contains cdrecord.
OK, *when* do you get this error? Emerge? What were you trying to do?
Ok, I see that cdrecord is included in the cdrtools package. I should have done an 'emerge --clean rsync' instead of simply 'emerge rsync' when updating my portage tree. Sorry about the confusion, I'm new to Gentoo. Thanks for your quick help! You're doing a great job, guys.