Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 1/13/07, Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
>> You may want to reconsider this.  I have googleearth installed here and
>> it doesn't get along well with portage and it's digest checking.  Of
>> course, it doesn't like my dial-up either.  LOL
>
> It would appear google has updated their package without changing the
> name, and portage has not been notified of this change. If you want it
> to work, delete the digest file for it in
> ${PORTAGE_DIR}/x11-misc/googleearth/files/digest-googleearth-4_beta
> and then re-generate it with
> ebuild ${PORTAGE_DIR}/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta digest
>
> and that should fix you up. I found it still compiles and runs fine
> *shrugs*
>

True, you hit the problem right on the head.  That is exactly what they
do.  But what I had noticed is that they change that thing a lot.  Since
I am on a really slow dial-up here, I check for updates, sync, every
couple days or so.  While I know that it comes from Google and I don't
question the tarball from a security point of view, portage still
complains about it each time and deletes it for me, since it thinks it
is a security problem.  That would normally be a great idea but then I
have to download it again, which takes a little over two hours for me.
I get about 10Mbs a hour here.  < goes to have a good cry >

Plus, it is a pain in the butt to have to manually do the digest thing
every time I sync up too.  My solution was to remove it from the world
file, since portage had already deleted the tarball and I didn't want to
download it again to do a oneshot install.  Now the only drawback is
that --depclean -p tells me it is not needed since it is not in the
world file and is not a dependancy.  I do that manually anyways so it
doesn't matter.

I'm no guru but if he wants it out of overlay, he may want to emerge it
as a oneshot at least.  Then just check for updates on occasion.  I had
to use the --digest option too when I installed it.  That way it assumes
it is OK and doesnt' check it.

Hope that makes sense.  Maybe . . . .   LOL

Dale

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