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

[stefan11111 <stefan11111@shitposting.expert>]

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
-- 
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"