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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Masked by corruption
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:40:53
Message-Id: 4589668D.2000108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Masked by corruption by James Cloos
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4 James Cloos wrote:
5 > I'm getting an inordinate number of masked- by corruption failures
6 > since merging portage-2.1.2_rc3-r7.
7
8 Do you get a "!!! Digest verification failed:" message before that,
9 or only the "masked by: corruption" message? Assuming that the
10 messages are invalid, you may be able to use FEATURES="-strict" or
11 FEATURES="digest" to avoid those messages. However, you should know
12 exactly what those features do before you change them.
13
14 > Part of the problem is the addition of the complete dep graph. (Which
15 > makes testing extraordinarily and horrifically painful; it now takes
16 > emerge(1) about 20 to 30 minutes to get started, since reading in
17 > everything in /var/db/pkg thrashes the dcache....) It is unable to
18 > deal with some of the stuff already installed.
19
20 It sounds like you're experiencing this bug:
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22 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158649
23
24 I'll get that one fixed ASAP.
25
26 > The "corruption" is not changed files. Hashes of the ebuilds always
27 > match the srings in the Manifest files. It seems that it just doesn't
28 > like old syntax.
29 >
30 > Running with --debug did not explain what it found to be "corrupt".
31 >
32 > I don't see any relevant bugs, and I think this requires some
33 > discussion, hense this post.
34
35 Please file a bug.
36
37 > It'll take a couple of hours for another sync and update to run,
38 > should I even bother with -r8?
39 >
40 > -JimC
41
42 Don't bother because -r8 will behave the same way.
43
44 Zac
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