Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:02:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "F.Xavier Noria" <fxn@isoco.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubt on port checksum errors Message-ID: <20020311160205.A35825@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020311221049.GC2388@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:10:49AM %2B0200 References: <20020311145648.D3D29CD2BB@smtp.bcn.isoco.net> <20020311221049.GC2388@hades.hell.gr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-03-11 15:56, F.Xavier Noria wrote: > > Just for curiosity's sake, I find sometimes checksum erros when building > > ports (tramp-emacs21 and e3 recently, for instance). I suppose porters > > perform some checks that would show that before committing... is there > > any machine-dependant component in this process, or should be useful to > > report to them those mismatchs? > > This is possible when the porter (the guy who maintains the port in > FreeBSD) hasn't noticed that the distfile was overwritten by the > maintainers of the source, without changing version numbers... It's also possible when the checksum has already been updated to the new version, and you still have the old one. Remove the failing distfile and re-fetch it, and if it still fails checksum, then send in a report. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8jUV9Wry0BWjoQKURAk10AJwNSGvhk1EGlZk0F3jKByhqSmph7QCgvj/s iZQdOcFzmnmF8QXAehFgbrU= =Wqw1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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