Bug 46970 – sys-apps/cronbase has bad digest

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Rob 2004-04-06 09:44:31 UTC]

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.

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-04-06 09:47:09 UTC]

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/)

[Comment 2 Rob 2004-04-06 16:43:04 UTC]

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.