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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:31:59
Message-Id: 53CE4B97.9000406@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash by Dale
1 On 22/07/14 19:03, Dale wrote:
2 > J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 05:05:43 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote:
4 >>> I have a couple of systems with flash that are always a pain to update
5 >>> because the checksums fail so you have to manually force a manifest
6 >>> rebuild first. As I have to update them anyway, is there a ways to
7 >>> override the portage checksums and say install anyway? Because this
8 >>> package always fails anyway, I cant see any security gain by having a
9 >>> manual update every-time anyway.
10 >> I would be more interested in finding out why it fails?
11 >> I use adobe flash myself and never experience a checksum issue with it.
12 >>
13 >> --
14 >> Joost
15 >>
16 >> .
17 >>
18 >
19 > Same here. I have it installed here and don't recall ever having a
20 > digest issue. It could be that something is off somewhere. If so, I'd
21 > rethink bypassing the checks.
22 >
23 > Dale
24 >
25 > :-) :-)
26 >
27
28 Hmm, that's interesting.
29
30 Caused me to look closer ... I am pulling from http-replicator which
31 doesnt update the package if it cant see a name change (and adobe don't
32 change the name on the package - just the directory its pulled from) so
33 of course it fails checksum.
34
35 Thanks for the hints to track this down.
36
37 BillK

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>