Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

[Dale]

Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Some time back I saw someone mention a way to get emerge to install an
> ebuild with a bad digest - man emerge shows nothing so can someone give
> me a hint.  It was much easier than going down the ebuild path.
>

I think it is --digest.  I don't see it in the man page so you may have 
to do that with the ebuild command and the manifest option.  See man 
page to make sure.

I will also add, you should not do this unless it passed the first test 
and you had to edit the file for some reason.  It could be corrupt or 
altered in some unknown way otherwise.

> Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the
> e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper snafu and find that now I have it booted
> re-emerging util-linux wont overwrite the files I manually installed to
> replace the missing ones - necessitating manually rm'ing some 50 or so
> files - is there a way to force emerge to ignore file collisions and
> just overwrite them in this circumstance?
>
> BillK
>
>

I think you are looking for this option with emerge:

       --noconfmem
              Causes  portage  to disregard merge records indicating 
that a config file inside of a CONFIG_PRO-
              TECT directory has been merged already.  Portage will 
normally merge those  files  only  once  to
              prevent the user from dealing with the same config 
multiple times.  This flag will cause the file
              to always be merged.

Keep in mind that it will replace whatever it emerges which may include 
dependencies.  I have never used that option before so be forewarned if 
it does.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)