diff -Naur orig/emerge-delta-webrsync modified-r1/emerge-delta-webrsync
--- emerge-delta-webrsync.old	2006-09-28 10:29:52.000000000 +0000
+++ emerge-delta-webrsync-3.5.1	2006-09-30 12:09:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
 	echo "thus, bailing (sorry)"
 	exit 5
 else
-	if ! fetch_from_mirrors "/snapshots/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum" "portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum"; then
+	if [[ ! -e portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum ]] && ! fetch_from_mirrors "/snapshots/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum" "portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum"; then
 		if ! fetch_from_mirrors "/snapshots/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum" "portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.umd5sum"; then
 			echo "couldn't grab umd5sum (uncompressed md5sum) for ${final_date}."
 			echo "can't compensate for bzip2 version differences iow."
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@
 
 echo "verifying generated tarball"
 
-if ! verify_md5_file "${TEMPDIR}/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2"; then
+if ! verify_md5_file "${TEMPDIR}/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2" "${DISTDIR}/portage-${final_date}.tar.bz2.md5sum"; then
 	if [[ -z $verified ]]; then
 		echo "couldn't verify the generated tarball.  bug, most likely."
 		exit 5