'emerge vim' requires 'emerge vim-core-7.2' !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vim Actual Results: !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 7203720 !!! Expected: 7203291 Expected Results: Successful emerge Happened to me first time yesterday, and occurs still despite 3 'emerge --sync's throughout yesterday and today
as root, do: rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 Then try again. Freshly fetched tarballs seem to be ok here, so you probably got a bad tarball off your mirror.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238227 ***
You solution worked - upon second attempt. I presume the mirrors took a while to propagate. Thanks