Hello, Arsen. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it.
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 17:48:18 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi Alan, > Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm trying to do > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg. > > It shows me 5 packages to be merged, among them being > > [ebuild R ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0 [78.15.0] > > .. When I answer the "are you sure?" prompt with Yes, spidermonkey fails > > to build with this error message: > >>>> Emerging (1 of 5) dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0::localrepo > > !!! Fetched file: firefox-78.15.0esr.source.tar.xz VERIFY FAILED! > > !!! Reason: Insufficient data for checksum verification > > !!! Got: > > !!! Expected: BLAKE2B BLAKE2S MD5 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 SHA3_256 SHA3_512 > > SHA512 WHIRLPOOL > > * Fetch failed for 'dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0', Log file: > > * '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.15.0/temp/build.log' > > It would appear that the sources are no longer available at Firefox, and > > I no longer have a copy in /usr/portage/distfiles. > > Why is portage trying to build this obsolete version? I surely will just > > unmerge it as soon as my system is back in order. > Because it currently is installed and depends on a preserved lib. I was confused about that. It didn't appear to be present and functional. > > Most importantly, how can I free up my system so that I can proceed with > > the pending profile update? I appear to be stuck. I hope I won't have > > to reinstall gentoo. > You can just go ahead with it. Odds are Spidermonkey will be updated, > or at least rebuilt, when you do that. I've got rid of it with energe --unmerge. My @preserved-rebuild now works again. So it's time to go for the 23.0 profile. Thanks! > -- > Arsen Arsenović -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
