emerge was unable to fetch R-2.12.1.tar.gz from any Gentoo mirrors the last two days. I downloaded the package from http://cran.r-project.org and it worked just fine. Reproducible: Always
It looks like the cran.r-mirror.de upstream mirror is broken (see below). floppym@naomi R % ebuild R-2.12.1.ebuild fetch >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz' --2010-12-24 19:07:14-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.236.52, 137.226.34.42, 140.211.166.134, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-12-24 19:07:14 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://cran.r-mirror.de/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.1.tar.gz' --2010-12-24 19:07:14-- http://cran.r-mirror.de/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.1.tar.gz Resolving cran.r-mirror.de... 69.170.135.92 Connecting to cran.r-mirror.de|69.170.135.92|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 685 [text/html] Saving to: “/usr/portage/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz” 100%[==========================================================>] 685 --.-K/s in 0s 2010-12-24 19:07:15 (73.4 MB/s) - “/usr/portage/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz” saved [685/685] ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 685, 20806432) !!! Fetched file: R-2.12.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 685 !!! Expected: 20806432 Refetching... File renamed to '/usr/portage/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz._checksum_failure_.heumfd' >>> Downloading 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.1.tar.gz' --2010-12-24 19:07:15-- http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.1.tar.gz Resolving cran.us.r-project.org... 140.107.3.21 Connecting to cran.us.r-project.org|140.107.3.21|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 20806432 (20M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: “/usr/portage/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz” 100%[==========================================================>] 20,806,432 215K/s in 2m 53s 2010-12-24 19:10:09 (117 KB/s) - “/usr/portage/distfiles/R-2.12.1.tar.gz” saved [20806432/20806432] * R-2.12.1.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
(In reply to comment #1) > It looks like the cran.r-mirror.de upstream mirror is broken (see below). Confirmed. That site advertises itself as for sale. I have removed that domain from /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors.
Thanks Sebastian for fixing this.
