if you don't download the source file from ibiblio the ebuild fails because it refers to Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz which no longer can be found on cpan (see url) >>> emerge dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.17-r1 to / >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz --20:42:14-- http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz' Resolving www.ibiblio.org... done. Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[213.193.166.7]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 20:42:24 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/14_Security_and_Encryption/Digest/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz --20:42:24-- http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/14_Security_and_Encryption/Digest/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz' Resolving cpan.valueclick.com... done. Connecting to cpan.valueclick.com[209.85.157.220]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 20:42:25 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download Digest-MD5-2.17.tar.gz. Aborting.
update version number of Digest-MD5 and committed it to portage.
this breaks on ppc as it was unmasked while digest-base-1.05 is still masked. !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-perl/digest-base" have been masked. !!! (dependency required by "dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.33" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.33 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed.