Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

[Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> > I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some
>> > random java ebuild.
>> > Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see:
>> >
>> > Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB
>> >
>> > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes
>> >>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>> >
>> > !!! Digest verification failed:
>> > !!! /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild
>> > !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification
>> > !!! Got: 751637964edd458f00c9c72de8f5375eabaf9004
>> > !!! Expected: c7268656bf1adccafde5dd9c1104c5a12905b1dc
>> > treat init.d #
>> >
>> >
>> > I've tried deleting the offending file and re-syncing, but the same
>> error
>> > occurs.
>> >
>> > Help???
>> >
>> > ++ kevin
>> >
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215288
>>
>> [....]
>>
>> Workaround:
>>    remove EBUILD line from Manifest
>>    remove /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Things have moved quickly.  The workaround did not work for me, but
>> before
> I got to post
> a complaint about it, the PowersThatBe somehow pushed good copies of the
> portage tree
> out to the mirrors, and things seem to be working again.

The workaround worked for me but I had to get rid of the Changelog ( and 
remove it from the Manifest) as well.
It was also corrupted.

emerge worked fine after that. I'll do another sync later in the week.

> Thanks, though.  It was an interesting education.

Yep. Gentoo is like that.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
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