Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>> I deleted the busybox directory from the tree then ran emerge --sync.
>> The error is still there
> You have the same files that I have.
> Unfortunately, only now I actually did:
>
> $ grep busybox-9999 Manifest
> EBUILD busybox-9999.ebuild 8580 [...]
>
> ???
> I have the same wrong size recorded in the Manifest!
> No idea why portage didn't yell at me - there seems
> to be another bug involved.
>
> So, sorry, my previous conjecture was wrong.
>
> The only information which I can give you currently,
> is that probably all mirrors contain the same broken Manifest
> in the moment.
>
> *Perhaps* (a very wild conjecture!) the reason why this Manifest
> got not updated is the same bug which caused portage not to yell
> at me, despite the broken Manifest.
>
> As a temporary hack, calling "ebuild manifest" on that file is
> probably the only reasonable way to proceed, but this problem
> must be fixed, of course...
>
>
>


Wasn't there a emerge option to ignore the manifest?  I seem to recall
there used to be one but it was a LONG time ago.  Of course, if someone
has tinkered with something that would be a bad thing to do. 

Dale

:-)  :-)