I just did an all day 'emerge world' but came back to find it'd stalled. One of the digests didn't match on a downloaded file. I'd like it if emerge could retry from a different mirror as the problem is usually caused not by malicious file modification but by network/ftp problems. Is there already an option buried somewhere already?? Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-ck7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-ck7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib aim alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr composite crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk+ gtk2 hardenedphp imlib jabber java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB live mad matroska media-video/mplayer:libcaca mikmod mmx mng monkey motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses net-www/apache:threads nls oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype usb video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib"
It does try. The solution is not simple. Users may not wish for portage to repeatedly try to fetch a file over their network. It can consume a lot of bandwidth that may be paid for per megabyte. It does retry, but it can only assume that it is invalid due to tampering.
