Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

[Peter Humphrey]

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

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Regards
Peter