I've been running a bulk upgrade and when the process gets to the point of updating "tex-babel", (from tex-babel-3.33 to tex-babel-3.42), it runs through "digest" and determines that it needs to download a file called "babel.r54487.tar.xz." This doesn't look correct and in fact it cannot find the file on any tested server.
While it does indeed look weird, this was at some point in time the correct file to fetch.
on the texlive mirrors there is currently babel.r54930.tar.xz.
Anyone seen something like this?
Yes, but it was fetched without problems from the netbsd cdn (i.e. last resort).