Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On 22/07/14 19:03, Dale wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 05:05:43 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>>> I have a couple of systems with flash that are always a pain to update
>>>> because the checksums fail so you have to manually force a manifest
>>>> rebuild first.  As I have to update them anyway, is there a ways to
>>>> override the portage checksums and say install anyway?  Because this
>>>> package always fails anyway, I cant see any security gain by having a
>>>> manual update every-time anyway.
>>> I would be more interested in finding out why it fails?
>>> I use adobe flash myself and never experience a checksum issue with it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>> Same here.  I have it installed here and don't recall ever having a
>> digest issue.  It could be that something is off somewhere.  If so, I'd
>> rethink bypassing the checks. 
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
> Hmm, that's interesting.
>
> Caused me to look closer ... I am pulling from http-replicator which
> doesnt update the package if it cant see a name change (and adobe don't
> change the name on the package - just the directory its pulled from) so
> of course it fails checksum.
>
> Thanks for the hints to track this down.
>
> BillK
>

Welcome.  I wonder if http-replicator needs to check more than the
name?   I use it at times when I have more than one rig running and
sounds like maybe it needs a new feature. 

Dale

:-)  :-)