Bug 571304

Summary:	sci-electronics/xnec2c-3.4 fails to build, checksum failure
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Blake Leverett <bleverett>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bleverett
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Blake Leverett 2016-01-08 18:24:53 UTC

Package fails to build because the specified source file is not in portage, and does not appear to exist on the internet.

2016-01-08 10:54:39 (1.31 MB/s) - ‘/usr/portage/distfiles/xnec2c-3.4.tar.bz2’ saved [922924/922924]

!!! Fetched file: xnec2c-3.4.tar.bz2 VERIFY FAILED!
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got:      922924
!!! Expected: 922548

Comment 1 Blake Leverett 2016-01-08 23:06:26 UTC

I was able to find the right source file by going to gentoo.org and going to mirrors and saving the file manually, until I found one that matched the checksum.

I have this problem a lot and it is annoying.  It seems like there would be a way to check mirrors for the incorrect versions of source files and remove them, so that a gentoo install would just pick another mirror with the correct file.  Or something like that.

Sorry to complain, I love using gentoo and it usually works just great.