I've been getting a bad digest problem for cronbase for the past 2 weeks now. Here is my emerge -vup world output: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3 [0.2.1-r2] [empty/missing/bad digest] [ebuild U ] net-mail/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r3 [1.4.2-r1] +crypt +ldap +ssl -virus-scan 2,332 kB [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.25 -build 31,488 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4 [3.0.1-r3] -(selinux) 49 kB [ebuild UD] dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.5.6_rc1 [2.5.6] 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/metalog-0.8_pre20031130 [0.7-r1] 39 kB I check the directory notice the digest is 0 bytes: rae files # pwd /usr/portage/sys-apps/cronbase/files rae files # ll total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 26 13:38 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 29 13:40 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2859 May 13 2002 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 31 2003 digest-cronbase-0.2.1-r2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 18 22:31 digest-cronbase-0.2.1-r3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1951 Nov 18 22:39 run-crons I tried deleting the files and resyncing but still got the same problem. The last server I synced with is crow.gentoo.org.
it's fine actually -- there's no files for it to digest, as cronbase installs something out of the files/ subdirectory. You should see something similar for superadduser (in which case the superadduser script what gets installed is in files/)
Ok, as a user, the message makes it look like there is a serious problem with the portage tree. I'd rather this message ([empty/missing/bad digest]) not be displayed if there is no files to digest.
