From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 21:28:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gecko.yellowgoanna.com (monatomic4.link.internode.on.net [150.101.99.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D8537B400 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from albert (unknown [192.168.0.12]) by gecko.yellowgoanna.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9740D17D50; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:58:39 +1030 (CST) From: "Richard Russell" To: "'jamgill@uu.net'" Cc: Subject: RE: Problem installing Xfree86-4 and other ports Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:58:41 +1030 Message-ID: <004601c1b83d$20781120$0c00a8c0@albert> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > See that "Checksum mismatch" part? That (probably) means > that the port > pulled down a tarball of a later version than when the port was > written. I have a few suggestions that I hope can help you > navigate this > pass: > > 1) when you CVSup'd to the latest version, did you update > your ports tree > also? If you didn't, I would recommend doing that. Try putting the > lines: > *default release=cvs tag=. > ports-all > in your cvsupfile and updating again to get a current ports tree.* I did... > > 2) you can try going into the /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tarup/ and doing > `make NO_CHECKSUM=yes` > but if the port has patches or other modifications to the distribution > that apply to an older version you can get into trouble. Not trouble > that can't be fixed by rm -rf'ing the work subdir there, but > unpredictable > results at the least. tried... failed due to a patch... > > 3) you can pull the version of the distfile off your CD set and put it > into /usr/ports/distfiles/ or mount the CD to /cdrom and install the > version of the distrobution files that are already in the > room. That may > save you a few A$ ;-) heh :) deleting it and redownloading worked -- same diff, I suspect :) Thanks again... -- Richard Russell Yellow Goanna Pty Ltd e: richard@yellowgoanna.com m: +61 412 827 805 f: +61 8 8462 2362 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message