From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 16:12:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0169216A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E54443D53 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i120CjVX004469; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id i120ClYQ003811; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:47 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Gautam Gopalakrishnan Message-ID: <20040202001247.GA99898@tao.thought.org> References: <20040201214224.GA92851@tao.thought.org> <20040202102333.2277a388.ggop@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040202102333.2277a388.ggop@myrealbox.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:12:53 -0000 On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:23:33AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:42:24 -0800 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > People, > > > > Since I managed to upgrade this system's ports tree, > > I keep things up to date. Recently, been having trouble > > fetching some ports. openldap is one such. Upgrading > > or trying tomake install clean by hand keeps giving me: > > > > . > > . > > . > > . > > >> Attempting to fetch from > > http://openldap.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/. > > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658) > > >> Attempting to fetch from > > ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/. > > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658) > > >> Attempting to fetch from > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. > > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658) > > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve ........ > > fetch is tring to resume the download, but the size on disk (2042658) is > larger than the actual size of the file. Try deleting from > /usr/ports/distfiles. It should work. > This is exactly what has worked previously--or whenever a port tarball hasn't fetched correctly. This time I mv'd the distfile/* tarball and deleted (pkg_delete -f) the port. No joy. I'll look further. thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix