On Saturday 21 November 2009 11:04:18 William Kenworthy wrote: > There is often a couple of ebuilds in the tree that need manual editing > for one reason or another so the digest needs regenerating. For one > off's its easier to do it in situ, but if long term pain is expected its > better to do in an overlay. > > Same day I also got caught with googleearth - tried to install it, the > digest is wrong as if they keep changing it (happens nearly everytime > for GE). Gave up and just installed it via the google stuff manually so > I didnt have to deal with it :)
Googleearth downloads are not versioned. Just like sun-jdk used to be, and a whole raft of stupid dumb-ass proprietary stuff out there. The md5sum can change as often as the app dev can ftp new versions up there, and usually the ebuild maintainer doesn't catch it right away. He then has to download a copy for himself, check that it is legit, and update the ebuild. It's a royal pita. Easiest way it is to redigest ebuilds yourself for these proprietary closed-source apps. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
