Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:06:48 -0400 From: Barry C.Hawkins <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com> To: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostscript-gnu distfile checksum error - WORKAROUND (was: Stop error installing /usr/ports/mail/evolution) Message-ID: <247FA9B2-E985-11D7-B652-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com> In-Reply-To: <20030917213736.59b6e901.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 22:37 US/Eastern, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On 17 Sep 2003 22:16:58 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote: > >> Barry Hawkins <barryhawkins@mac.com> writes: >> >>> My own research via Google showed several places I could try >>> to download the problematic Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz. After >>> downloading the file in question several times from different >>> locations, including the FreeBSD ftp archives, I continued to receive >>> the same messages regarding checksum failures. >>> I came across one person's workaround, and was able to use >>> that <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-July/ >>> 002738.html>. However, there are several old postings in various >>> newsgroups about this problem, some dating back to October 2002. Why >>> hasn't this MD5 checksum issue been corrected yet? Is there another >>> dependent issue that justifies not fixing this? >> >> If I fetch it right now, it fetches fine and matches the checksum. >> There's nothing wrong with the port -- the problem is in your system >> failing to get the file. Remove it, and let the ports system get it >> on its own, and I *suspect* that the ports system will get it right. > > > I ran into this problem also a while back, just deleted the distfile > "Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz" and fetched it again. Problem solved! > > Regards, > > > Stephen Hilton > nospam@hiltonbsd.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Thanks for the responses guys. It's odd to me that such a small file would have failed to download properly when so many others were downloaded during the same process without issue. I will chalk this one up to experience and (hopefully ;^) ) remember it for the future. Regards, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com/ weblog: www.allthingscomputed.com/blog/
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