Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: 
I've gotten this mail twice now.

On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:28, Dale wrote:
  
Kent Fredric wrote:
    
It would appear google has updated their package without changing the
name, and portage has not been notified of this change.
      

It's the other way around. He gets a digest verification error *because* 
portage was notified. The old ebuild gets removed because it's tarball is now 
unavailable upstream (and a new is available under the same name).

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and that should fix you up. I found it still compiles and runs fine
*shrugs*
      

Not much of a fix. Just gets the old version. Of course it still compiles and 
runs. It hasn't changed at all.

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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.
    
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I can't help wondering. If you don't have the bandwidth to upgrade when there 
is an upgrade. How useful is googleearth to you then. It's not like it 
doesn't require any bandwidth just to run... Also the more often you sync the 
more bandwidth you need with Gentoo in general..

I only got it once.  :/

Well, I tried the other way around, not updating as often but I have it all planned out now.  The problem with waiting is that it builds up.  I would hate to sync after a month or so then find out OOo and KDE was updated, plus some otehrs for good measure.  Just OOo takes me about 24 hours to download.  Yes, I get the compiled version.  This is Gentoo after all.  ;-)  Plus, I ran into a config nightmare.  To many updates at once for me.  I'm not a guru.

The way I do is this, I connect around 10:00PM, check my emails and sometimes the weather.  Then I start the sync process and tell it to fetch the new stuff afterwards, got to love the &&.  While it is doing that, I go for my nightly soak in the tub.  I have a skin disorder and I have spent several hours in the tub.  This works well because at the very least the fetch has started and sometimes it has been fetching for a while.  It depends on how many things are updated and how long I soak. 

As for googleearth, well, dial-up has taught me patience.  It works, it just takes a really long time to get there.  Sometimes another soak in the tub.  LOL

Dale

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