R-bundle-CRAN-2025.11-foss-2025b.eb metadat extension checksum has changed

[signalbox2]

Installing R-bundle-CRAN-2025.11-foss-2025b.eb fails on the checksum for metadat:

('metadat', '1.4-0', {
        'checksums': ['2a5d6dee053cc329bc5c03fb6058ed99312f8f56c15028fabcbfa21170ef3f05'],

The current download was updated apparently on 02-Apr-2026 and the checksum is now (I tried all 3 download sources):

e750b5f243539a3f1ec6b06a6e8c402f2732f050bb2b6c4098b43bcffaf29ad3

I can see that it was repackaged at least from the DESCRIPTION file:

Packaged: 2026-04-02 14:08:46 UTC; hornik
Author: Wolfgang Viechtbauer [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3463-4063>),
  Thomas White [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-1734>),
  Daniel Noble [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9460-8743>),
  Alistair Senior [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9805-7280>),
  W. Kyle Hamilton [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-7990>),
  Guido Schwarzer [dtc] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-9087>)
Maintainer: Wolfgang Viechtbauer <wvb@metafor-project.org>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-04-02 16:31:23

A significant number of files inside the tar file are also dated the same new date.

This will also impact R-bundle-CRAN-2025.10-foss-2025a.eb as it uses the same version of metadat.

[signalbox2]

Today I found that the metafor package from the same author has also been updated with no version change, so fails with the checksum in the easyconfig:

    ('metafor', '4.8-0', {
        'checksums': ['2b710674b15fe3e79474b5c3e779038a614eba9e61b2249532c86dc155f00644'],
    }),

The checksum is now:
59003bece34b2ed39f29dce61ca5a68287be07ec683f2f6c51f17bb50ca87801
This too was repackaged:

Packaged: 2026-04-03 05:24:29 UTC; hornik
Author: Wolfgang Viechtbauer [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3463-4063>)
Maintainer: Wolfgang Viechtbauer <wvb@metafor-project.org>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-04-03 08:35:40

Again, this will impact R-bundle-CRAN-2025.10-foss-2025a.eb which uses the same version.

[sassy-crick]

I have actually opened an issue with them:
wviechtb/metadat#38
and this one here:
wviechtb/metadat#39

So that is something we need to follow up with the CRAN maintainers it seems.

[Thyre]

Should be resolved by #26170