Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Arsen.

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.  Just after I first posted, I
updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged.  So my qmail
stopped working.  I've now reinstalled and configured it.

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 17:48:18 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:

> Hi Alan,

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> > Hello, Gentoo.

> > I'm trying to do

> >     # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild

> > ..  For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with
> > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg.

> > It shows me 5 packages to be merged, among them being

> >     [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0 [78.15.0]

> > ..  When I answer the "are you sure?" prompt with Yes, spidermonkey fails
> > to build with this error message:

> >>>> Emerging (1 of 5) dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0::localrepo
> > !!! Fetched file: firefox-78.15.0esr.source.tar.xz VERIFY FAILED!
> > !!! Reason: Insufficient data for checksum verification
> > !!! Got:
> > !!! Expected: BLAKE2B BLAKE2S MD5 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 SHA3_256 SHA3_512
> > SHA512 WHIRLPOOL
> >  * Fetch failed for 'dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0', Log file:
> >  *  '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0/temp/build.log'

> > It would appear that the sources are no longer available at Firefox, and
> > I no longer have a copy in /usr/portage/distfiles.

> > Why is portage trying to build this obsolete version?  I surely will just
> > unmerge it as soon as my system is back in order.

> Because it currently is installed and depends on a preserved lib.

I was confused about that.  It didn't appear to be present and
functional.

> > Most importantly, how can I free up my system so that I can proceed with
> > the pending profile update?  I appear to be stuck.  I hope I won't have
> > to reinstall gentoo.

> You can just go ahead with it.  Odds are Spidermonkey will be updated,
> or at least rebuilt, when you do that.

I've got rid of it with energe --unmerge.  My @preserved-rebuild now
works again.

So it's time to go for the 23.0 profile.

Thanks!

> -- 
> Arsen Arsenović

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).