On Tuesday 22 July 2014 20:41:34 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > 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
I can't use any of the other packages because I use the BBC's radio streaming service every day, and none of them work with it (as far as I know). I have the same problem every time adobe-flash is updated. Last time it happened I had a conversation with the maintainer about it [1]. He said the problem was caused by Adobe's unconventional version numbering (which sounds like the same thing as Bill found), together with any caching proxy in between. That's http-replicator in my case too. Solved with wget --no-proxy. Or I suppose just deleting the tarball from the proxy's cache should do it. Forcing a re-manifest is not the thing to do, as that would just lead to reinstalling the version you have already. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509874 -- Regards Peter
