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I've gotten this mail twice now. |
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On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:28, Dale wrote: |
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> Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > It would appear google has updated their package without changing the |
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> > name, and portage has not been notified of this change. |
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It's the other way around. He gets a digest verification error *because* |
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portage was notified. The old ebuild gets removed because it's tarball is now |
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unavailable upstream (and a new is available under the same name). |
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[SNIP] |
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> > and that should fix you up. I found it still compiles and runs fine |
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> > *shrugs* |
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Not much of a fix. Just gets the old version. Of course it still compiles and |
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runs. It hasn't changed at all. |
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[SNIP] |
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> While I know that it comes from Google and I don't question the tarball from |
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> a security point of view, portage still complains about it each time and |
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> deletes it for me, since it thinks it is a security problem. That would |
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> normally be a great idea but then I have to download it again, which takes a |
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> little over two hours for me. I get about 10Mbs a hour here. |
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[SNIP] |
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I can't help wondering. If you don't have the bandwidth to upgrade when there |
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is an upgrade. How useful is googleearth to you then. It's not like it |
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doesn't require any bandwidth just to run... Also the more often you sync the |
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more bandwidth you need with Gentoo in general.. |
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Bo Andresen |
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