From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:19:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-9.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA8337B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1357F66B5F; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:19:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Young Cc: Kris Kennaway , rshea@opendoor.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3 Message-ID: <20010522051911.A21628@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz> <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org> <003501c0e2b8$856b8590$0300a8c0@oracle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003501c0e2b8$856b8590$0300a8c0@oracle>; from dougy@brizzie.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:10:39PM +1000 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 --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:10:39PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > Doug's experiences with ports certainly are *not* typical. >=20 > Is it possible that very poor connections could cause problems that > appear to be a broken port ?? Many of our phone lines in OZ are > dark age quality (eg 20 bytes / second download aren't uncommon), > so its often a matter of trying several times to download something > before its successful. I've been having better results lately by > grabbing > the source & either compiling it, or by putting it in > /usr/ports/distfiles > before running "make install". Thats got a few applications installed > that appeared broken in several attempts using regular ports setup. > (ie cd /usr/ports/whatever, then "make install") If you're getting checksum failures, it certainly is most likely due to truncated (or less likely in general, corrupted) downloads. Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Clk/Wry0BWjoQKURApmSAJ9AczA2mg9kOzarKIgESMmjZc1aSwCfURQH xJj+Dmwi+IpXTCf2kN7UvFk= =IQ4e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message