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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
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>> Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild |
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>> for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current |
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>> ebuild is 2.0.0.12. |
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>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild |
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>> Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the |
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>> manifest, |
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>> ebuild |
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>> /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin/mozilla-thunde |
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>> rbird-bin-2.0.0.14.ebuild digest |
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>> and it failed, being unable to download the '.14 file from |
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>> Gentoo.something. |
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>> Well, this is to be expected, as Gentoo.something doesn't have the |
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>> '.14 file yet; and the ebuild downloads the source code from the |
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>> author's site, not from gentoo.something. |
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>> So I ended up running the emerge 3 times, manually tweaking the |
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>> Manifest's hashes with the newer hashes, 'til everything matched, and |
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>> tbird 2.0.0.14 emerged normally. |
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>> So the question becomes, is there a way to bypass the manifest check? |
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>> Or alternatively, build the manifest with the correct hashes based |
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>> upon the source code's author's code. |
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> I think the assumption is that the dev making the ebuild already has the |
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> downloadable files. You have to have them to see how the build works to |
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> be able to write an ebuild that automates it. |
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> So what I do in these cases is wget all the files manually, |
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> run 'ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest' and emerge it. |
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YES..... makes sense; and now that you mention it, I recall somewhere |
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seeing someone doing that! |
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Thanks!! |
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p.s. apologies to the guy maintaining Mozilla. I sent a couple of |
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bugzilla notes about TBird being two releases behind; turns out that |
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there was no release 2.0.0.13 for 'nix - that Portage Tbird ebuild was |
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in fact quite on top of things.. |
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apologies again. |
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