hi there... just tried emerging xmms-arts. following is the bad checksum transcript. (i will investigate further and report back, but i wanted to record this while i still have the console output...) i have both of the tarballs and will compare them to see what the difference is. root # emerge xmms-arts Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-plugins/xmms-arts-0.4-r4 to / >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz --15:01:43-- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz' Resolving www.ibiblio.org... done. Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.81]:80... failed: Connection refused. >>> Downloading http://stukach.com/hosted/m.i.a/xmmsarts/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz --15:01:51-- http://stukach.com/hosted/m.i.a/xmmsarts/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz' Resolving stukach.com... done. Connecting to stukach.com[217.73.97.2]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 114,619 [application/x-tar] 100%[=======================================================>] 114,619 10.43K/s ETA 00:00 15:02:08 (10.43 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz' saved [114619/114619] !!! xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz: message digests do not match! !!! xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz is corrupt or incomplete. >>> our recorded digest: 0339aec5d67315da4a8242271cfc9f05 >>> your file's digest: 9eb38061f896209a3f17bc139f8cc7c5 >>> Please delete /usr/portage/distfiles/xmmsarts-0.4.tar.gz and refetch. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: just try emerging again to workaround this one. it's also possible that whatever caused the different file to be downloaded has gone away now.
after inspecting both .tar.gz files, they both appear to gunzip to an identical tarball. the sizes are the same and the extracted files look the same. (can some suggest an authoratative way to diff the two tarballs and/or extracted directories?) so it appears that the 'bad' .tar.gz file was compressed differently. i'm not too familiar with checksum errors in gentoo so maybe someone might explain what has happened? (i'm guessing this is no big deal, hence minor...) cheers...
no new info posted in some time. closing bug as worksforme.
