From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 20:06:55 2003 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 E970E16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from selene.hmdnsgroup.com (selene.hmdnsgroup.com [63.247.131.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E129D43F75 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com) Received: from dsl027-161-197.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.161.197] helo=allthingscomputed.com) by selene.hmdnsgroup.com with asmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19zp81-0003Ct-5w; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:06:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:06:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Stephen Hilton From: Barry C.Hawkins In-Reply-To: <20030917213736.59b6e901.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Message-Id: <247FA9B2-E985-11D7-B652-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - selene.hmdnsgroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - allthingscomputed.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostscript-gnu distfile checksum error - WORKAROUND (was: Stop error installing /usr/ports/mail/evolution) 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: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:06:56 -0000 On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 22:37 US/Eastern, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On 17 Sep 2003 22:16:58 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Barry Hawkins 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 >> 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/