On 15-11-15 at 15:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: [..] > > > 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. > I thought I remembered something where the manifest no longer checks the > ebuild, just the file in distfiles -- I thought I remembered seeing this > somewhere. It was at a time when we got all the manifests all at once. I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this could be a thing. Note how the Manifest for busybox in the gentoo.git tree doesn't have manifests for any of the ebuilds. [1]
[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/busybox/Manifest -- Simon Thelen
