On Friday 01 May 2009 18:38:45 [email protected] wrote: > For the last 15 days, every call to : > # emerge -uDp world returns > > >>> Failed to emerge dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10, Log file: > >>> > >>> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10/temp/build.log' > > * Messages for package dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10: > > * Fetch failed for 'dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10', Log file: > * '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10/temp/build.log' > > so I have to call > # emerge -uDp --resule --skipfirst world > after the first emerge to get updated packages. > What's the correct way to get out of this ridiculous situation and is this > package not loadable ?
Sun has this habit of updating packages and not changing the version numbers. If you download the file manually, redigest manually, and emerge again, does it solve your problem? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

