Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this? -- SOLVED

[gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com>]

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Nick Rout wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:32:46 +0100
>Jonathan Wright wrote:
>
>>- Second, run the digest command. You'll need to do this if it's not in
>>the standard portage tree and it's something you have added. Portage
>>needs to be told all the files within the tree and their md5 values, to
>>make sure nothing bad gets in :)
>
>
>And by running emerge --digest <target> or ebuild <target.ebuild> digest
>screws the digest system, because it substitutes the values you got from
>the portage mirror with the values from the files on your computer. It
>destroys any safety that the digest system offers.
>
>So if someone has broken into your system and screwed around with the
>portage tree so that when you install sylpheed-claws it does something
>nasty, running the digest command will allow that to happen.
>
>If the digests are wrong find out what the problem is!
>
My guess is that it didn't even get to the digest checks when it gave
me the error/warning.  emerge --sync seems to have fixed the problem.
I probably should have tried that before posting.  ;-)

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