Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > I've gotten this mail twice now. > > On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:28, Dale wrote: > >> Kent Fredric wrote: >> >>> It would appear google has updated their package without changing the >>> name, and portage has not been notified of this change. >>> > > It's the other way around. He gets a digest verification error *because* > portage was notified. The old ebuild gets removed because it's tarball is now > unavailable upstream (and a new is available under the same name). > > [SNIP] > >>> and that should fix you up. I found it still compiles and runs fine >>> *shrugs* >>> > > Not much of a fix. Just gets the old version. Of course it still compiles and > runs. It hasn't changed at all. > > [SNIP] > >> 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. >> > [SNIP] > > I can't help wondering. If you don't have the bandwidth to upgrade when there > is an upgrade. How useful is googleearth to you then. It's not like it > doesn't require any bandwidth just to run... Also the more often you sync the > more bandwidth you need with Gentoo in general.. > >
I only got it once. :/ Well, I tried the other way around, not updating as often but I have it all planned out now. The problem with waiting is that it builds up. I would hate to sync after a month or so then find out OOo and KDE was updated, plus some otehrs for good measure. Just OOo takes me about 24 hours to download. Yes, I get the compiled version. This is Gentoo after all. ;-) Plus, I ran into a config nightmare. To many updates at once for me. I'm not a guru. The way I do is this, I connect around 10:00PM, check my emails and sometimes the weather. Then I start the sync process and tell it to fetch the new stuff afterwards, got to love the &&. While it is doing that, I go for my nightly soak in the tub. I have a skin disorder and I have spent several hours in the tub. This works well because at the very least the fetch has started and sometimes it has been fetching for a while. It depends on how many things are updated and how long I soak. As for googleearth, well, dial-up has taught me patience. It works, it just takes a really long time to get there. Sometimes another soak in the tub. LOL Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
