From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318B013877A for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DACF3E0FF2; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.221]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424A0E0FE8 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:41:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhUFAHFbzlNqRRUb/2dsb2JhbABYgw5SzBuBVIFDAYEPFnaEBAEFbAoCEQsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBiD2/TBePUhaEMAWKZJBChxUpjHGDUTA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,710,1399996800"; d="scan'208";a="214770552" Received: from unknown (HELO mail.vm.localdomain) ([106.69.21.27]) by icp-osb-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 22 Jul 2014 20:41:48 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA4B600D69 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:41:46 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from mail.vm.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.vm.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NJGv0AhDXlMf for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:41:34 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.7] (rattus.lan.localdomain [192.168.44.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F8CE600D65 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:41:34 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <53CE5BFE.3050400@iinet.net.au> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:41:34 +0800 From: Bill Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash References: <53CE2967.1010105@iinet.net.au> <1419565.3RCxVFKX0b@andromeda> <53CE44F4.3050501@gmail.com> <53CE4B97.9000406@iinet.net.au> <53CE4F92.80807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53CE4F92.80807@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2536e485-941a-44f1-acdb-455ff62d1e72 X-Archives-Hash: 368018a8a86251d363df2ffecd188d79 On 22/07/14 19:48, Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-) > The saving grace is that I have only seen the behaviour with this one package so its something easily dealt with - now I know. Plus flash is dieing so I might be able to do away with it before much longer - unfortunately the OSS packages just are not as good. I've used http-replicator for distfiles since it came out in ~2004 and its always just worked. Oh well ... BillK