installing from ports

[Sam Lawrance]

On 28/05/2006, at 1:47 AM, andreas Sotirakopoulos wrote:

> Hi
> i often have this problem when i use ports to install things.
> Last time i tried to install amule2 from ports. I had the lattest  
> ports
> collection and so i cd into the directory and typed make install clean
> everything was normal  until  a dependancy wxGTK-2.6.3 had to be  
> installed. I
> started fetching it but the connetction got stuck. I waited for a  
> long time
> but it didn't seem to come back so i press ctrl-Z. I tried to rerun  
> the make
> install clean commands but this time although it starts ok when i  
> tried to
> fetch wxGTK-2.6.3 it cannot access any server saying local  
> modification time
> does not math remote
>
>   aMule-2.1.1 depends on shared library: wx_gtk2u_core-2.6 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for wx_gtk2u_core-2.6
> in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk26-unicode
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> ===>  Extracting for wxgtk2-unicode-2.6.3
> => MD5 Checksum mismatch for wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2.
> => SHA256 Checksum mismatch for wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2.
> ===>  Refetch for 1 more times files: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2  
> wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/.
> fetch:
> http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/ 
> wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2:
> Connection refused
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.bz2: local modification time does not match  
> remote
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
>
> what can i do? this has happend again with other ports and i was  
> unaible to do
> anything to recover them

Delete the affected distfiles (make distclean) and try again.  This  
pops up frequently, you probably would have found the answer if you  
had searched the mailing lists for that error message.