Martin Vaeth wrote: > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> I deleted the busybox directory from the tree then ran emerge --sync. >> The error is still there > You have the same files that I have. > Unfortunately, only now I actually did: > > $ grep busybox-9999 Manifest > EBUILD busybox-9999.ebuild 8580 [...] > > ??? > I have the same wrong size recorded in the Manifest! > No idea why portage didn't yell at me - there seems > to be another bug involved. > > So, sorry, my previous conjecture was wrong. > > The only information which I can give you currently, > is that probably all mirrors contain the same broken Manifest > in the moment. > > *Perhaps* (a very wild conjecture!) the reason why this Manifest > got not updated is the same bug which caused portage not to yell > at me, despite the broken Manifest. > > As a temporary hack, calling "ebuild manifest" on that file is > probably the only reasonable way to proceed, but this problem > must be fixed, of course... > > >
Wasn't there a emerge option to ignore the manifest? I seem to recall there used to be one but it was a LONG time ago. Of course, if someone has tinkered with something that would be a bad thing to do. Dale :-) :-)
