On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild > for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current > ebuild is 2.0.0.12. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild > > Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the > manifest, > > ebuild > /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin/mozilla-thunde >rbird-bin-2.0.0.14.ebuild digest > > and it failed, being unable to download the '.14 file from > Gentoo.something. > > Well, this is to be expected, as Gentoo.something doesn't have the > '.14 file yet; and the ebuild downloads the source code from the > author's site, not from gentoo.something. > > So I ended up running the emerge 3 times, manually tweaking the > Manifest's hashes with the newer hashes, 'til everything matched, and > tbird 2.0.0.14 emerged normally. > > So the question becomes, is there a way to bypass the manifest check? > Or alternatively, build the manifest with the correct hashes based > upon the source code's author's code.
I think the assumption is that the dev making the ebuild already has the downloadable files. You have to have them to see how the build works to be able to write an ebuild that automates it. So what I do in these cases is wget all the files manually, run 'ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest' and emerge it. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
