Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

[Simon Thelen <gentoo-user@c-14.de>]

On 15-11-15 at 15:29, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Martin Vaeth wrote:
> > > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
[..]
> > > As a temporary hack, calling "ebuild manifest" on that file is
> > > probably the only reasonable way to proceed, but this problem
> > > must be fixed, of course...
> > Wasn't there a emerge option to ignore the manifest?  I seem to recall
> > there used to be one but it was a LONG time ago.  Of course, if someone
> > has tinkered with something that would be a bad thing to do. 
> I thought I remembered something where the manifest no longer checks the
> ebuild, just the file in distfiles -- I thought I remembered seeing this
> somewhere.  It was at a time when we got all the manifests all at once.
I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this
could be a thing. Note how the Manifest for busybox in the gentoo.git
tree doesn't have manifests for any of the ebuilds. [1]

[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/busybox/Manifest

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Simon Thelen