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

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Stefan.

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 15:23:02 +0000, stefan11111 wrote:
> On 2024-04-01 15:12, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > 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.

> > 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.

> For old distfiles, NeddySeagoon hosts them publicly accessible.

> This is the closest I found to your version:

> https://bloodnoc.org/~roy/olde-distfiles/spidermonkey-78-patches-04.tar.xz

Thanks!  In the end I didn't need to download any files.

> -- 
> Linux-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-7400_CPU_@_3.00GHz

> COMMON_FLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native -fno-stack-protector 
> -ftree-vectorize -ffast-math -funswitch-loops -fuse-linker-plugin -flto 
> -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fno-plt -fno-semantic-interposition 
> -falign-functions=64 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize"

> USE="-* git verify-sig rsync-verify man alsa X grub ssl ipv6 lto 
> libressl olde-gentoo asm native-symlinks threads jit jumbo-build minimal 
> strip system-man"

> INSTALL_MASK="/etc/systemd /lib/systemd /usr/lib/systemd 
> /usr/lib/modules-load.d /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d *tmpfiles* /var/lib/dbus 
> /lib/udev /usr/share/icons /usr/share/applications 
> /usr/share/gtk-3.0/emoji"

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).