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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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>On Saturday 24 June 2006 18:51, Jarry wrote: |
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>>Anyway, I am still surprised a little. I thought sources |
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>>of portage-packages are mirrored on gentoo-mirrors... |
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>They are. If the package has just been added to the tree they may not have |
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>reached your mirror yet. If that is not the reason then it is probably a bug. |
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>The official mirror should be in the ebuild to tell the mirrors where to |
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>fetch it from and as a backup if it cannot be found on the Gentoo mirrors. |
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>>It seems to me to be a little "insecure", to download |
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>>mod_security from somewhere "from wild" instead of |
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>>gentoo-mirrors or homepage. One can not be sure those |
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>>sources have not been modified... |
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>As long as you don't override a digest verification error you are safe. Beware |
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>of those who tell you to override a digest verification error by running: |
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># ebuild $ebuild digest |
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>or: |
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># emerge --digest $pkg |
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Very true. I have seen people on this list tell people just that. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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