All Berkeley db's downloads broken

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Tue Nov 28 14:04:58 PST 2006


--On Tuesday, November 28, 2006 22:34:39 +0100 Matthias Andree 
<matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> writes:
>
>> Apparently Oracle has changed the location of berkeley dbs, eliminating
>> the need for DIST_SUBDIR=    bdb.  Furthermore, the checksums appear to
>> have changed for the main tarballs.
>
>
> DIST_SUBDIR has nothing to do with the upstream download location, but
> determines where the files are put locally when they are being
> downloaded (and obviously, where the ports system will try to extract
> the tarballs and read the patches from).
>
Groan - I knew that.   Don't know what I was thinking there....

But the checksums had changed, right?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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