Re: [gentoo-user] vmware

[Dale]

Jürgen Pierau wrote:
> Michael George schrieb:
>> I see vmware-player has disappeared from portage.  I did a quick search
>> and didn't find anything about why and haven't noticed it here.  Is
>> there a URL to information on why it was dropped from portage?
>>
> Hello Michael,
>
> a quick eix vmware-player reveals
>
> ux2 ~ # eix vmware-player
> * app-emulation/vmware-player
>     Available versions:  1.0.2.29634 ~1.0.3.34682-r1 [M]~2.0.0.45731
>     Homepage:            http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
>     Description:         Emulate a complete PC on your PC without the
> usual performance overhead of most emulators
>
>
> on my machine. Seems to be there just fine.
>
> C'Ya,
> Jürgen

This is strange.  I synced a few hours ago and I get this:

> root@smoker / # eix vmware-player
> No matches found.
> root@smoker / #

If I use equery I get this error message:

> root@smoker / # equery list -p vmware-player
> [ Searching for package 'vmware-player' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
>  * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
> !!! Digest verification failed:
> !!!
> /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/vmware-player-2.0.0.45731.ebuild
> !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
> !!! Got: dfcb2ba1cec92b5a7a2bf22b83d4943c
> !!! Expected: 0ce69e16b46f57b59e01cf3978fc27ef
> !!! Digest verification failed:
> !!!
> /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/vmware-player-2.0.0.45731.ebuild
> !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
> !!! Got: dfcb2ba1cec92b5a7a2bf22b83d4943c
> !!! Expected: 0ce69e16b46f57b59e01cf3978fc27ef
> !!! Internal portage error, terminating
> !!! 'app-emulation/vmware-player-1.0.2.29634'
> root@smoker / #

Could it be that me and the OP got a bad sync or something? 

Dale

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