Uppgrading emulators/linux_base-f8

[Leslie Jensen]

Scot Hetzel skrev:
> On 10/5/08, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:
>>  When trying to upgrade emulators/linux_base-f8
>>
>>  It ends up in a loop where it tries to fetch the files it needs.
>>
>>   Attempting to fetch from
>>
>>  But I get this
>>   File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>>
> I have found that if there is a corrupt file in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/i386/fedora/8/, it will cause fetch to try
> and reuse the corrupted file to complete the download.
> 
> This is caused by bsd.port.mk is defining FETCH_ARGS=-ApRr when trying
> to redownload the corrupted files when using  'make checksum'.
> 
> To get around this problem, I had to do the following:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8
> make checksum
> 
> This will list the failed files as {MD5,SHA256} Checksum mismatch <filename>.
> 
> Note: Kill the 'make checksum' when it starts fetching files
> 
> I then removed all these mismatch files from
> /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/i386/fedora/8.  After running 'make checksum'
> a second time, it succeeded in downloading all the missing files.
> 
> Now I could use portmaster to upgrade emulators/linux_base-f8.
> 
> Scot

Thank you.

That did it :-)

/Leslie