tried installing python 2.4 fresh using -- emerge dev-lang/python:2.4 and received the error -- Digest verification failed: /usr/portage/distfiles/python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r11.tar.bz2 Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Got: 22397 Expected: 22595 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.maybe remove /usr/portage/distfiles/python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r11.tar.bz2? 2.emerge dev-lang/python:2.4 3.fail Actual Results: python 2.4.4-r11 fails to install Expected Results: python 2.4.4-r11 succeeds installing Ihe file was already on my system when I tried to install it and it failed. I removed /usr/portage/distfiles/python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r11.tar.bz2 to force protage to download it again and it failed with the same error message. I have emerge --sync'd the system earlier Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 x86" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 avi bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode fame firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg logrotate midi mjpeg mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba session speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl subtitles sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi xorg xprint xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Same happens here, so it's not just a stale mirror. Assigning to maintainers.
Thanks for reporting, should be fixed now.
