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On Saturday 21 November 2009 11:04:18 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> There is often a couple of ebuilds in the tree that need manual |
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editing |
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> for one reason or another so the digest needs regenerating. |
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For one |
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> off's its easier to do it in situ, but if long term pain is |
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expected its |
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> better to do in an overlay. |
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> Same day I also got caught with googleearth - tried to install |
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it, the |
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> digest is wrong as if they keep changing it (happens nearly |
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everytime |
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> for GE). Gave up and just installed it via the google stuff |
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manually so |
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> I didnt have to deal with it :) |
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Googleearth downloads are not versioned. Just like sun-jdk used |
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to be, and a whole raft of stupid dumb-ass proprietary stuff out |
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there. |
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The md5sum can change as often as the app dev can ftp new |
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versions up there, and usually the ebuild maintainer doesn't |
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catch it right away. He then has to download a copy for himself, |
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check that it is legit, and update the ebuild. |
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It's a royal pita. Easiest way it is to redigest ebuilds yourself |
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for these proprietary closed-source apps. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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