Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 1/13/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You may want to reconsider this. I have googleearth installed here and
>> it doesn't get along well with portage and it's digest checking. Of
>> course, it doesn't like my dial-up either. LOL
>
> It would appear google has updated their package without changing the
> name, and portage has not been notified of this change. If you want it
> to work, delete the digest file for it in
> ${PORTAGE_DIR}/x11-misc/googleearth/files/digest-googleearth-4_beta
> and then re-generate it with
> ebuild ${PORTAGE_DIR}/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta digest
>
> and that should fix you up. I found it still compiles and runs fine
> *shrugs*
>
True, you hit the problem right on the head. That is exactly what they
do. But what I had noticed is that they change that thing a lot. Since
I am on a really slow dial-up here, I check for updates, sync, every
couple days or so. While I know that it comes from Google and I don't
question the tarball from a security point of view, portage still
complains about it each time and deletes it for me, since it thinks it
is a security problem. That would normally be a great idea but then I
have to download it again, which takes a little over two hours for me.
I get about 10Mbs a hour here. < goes to have a good cry >
Plus, it is a pain in the butt to have to manually do the digest thing
every time I sync up too. My solution was to remove it from the world
file, since portage had already deleted the tarball and I didn't want to
download it again to do a oneshot install. Now the only drawback is
that --depclean -p tells me it is not needed since it is not in the
world file and is not a dependancy. I do that manually anyways so it
doesn't matter.
I'm no guru but if he wants it out of overlay, he may want to emerge it
as a oneshot at least. Then just check for updates on occasion. I had
to use the --digest option too when I installed it. That way it assumes
it is OK and doesnt' check it.
Hope that makes sense. Maybe . . . . LOL
Dale
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