2010/1/17 Krzysiek Pawlik <nelch...@gentoo.org>: > On 01/17/10 18:20, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >>> Please: When you run tools which break checksums/dates of the database, >>> give the user the possibility to decide whether he really wants this. >> >> Good point, I didn't realize that. However, I'd rather fix the tool (for >> example to update the portage database). > > Nope, that's a bad idea unless you plan to implement such feature for portage, > paludis and pkgcore (and possibly other package managers). > > So use revdep-rebuild (longer but correct solution) or lafilefixer (quicker > but > introduces other problems).
For those who actually worry about the md5sum breakage lafilefixer causes, they can run lafilefixer in post_src_install using /etc/portage/bashrc. This way the correct md5sums of the la-files are recorded into the database. Or even better write a python implementation of lafilefixer so bug #271129 [1] could be fixed and portage takes care of it internally. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/271129 -- Daniel Pielmeier
