ghostscript-gnu distfile checksum error - WORKAROUND (was: Stop error installing /usr/ports/mail/evolution)

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Barry C. Hawkins" <ly5t5 at allthingscomputed.com> writes:

> Thanks for the responses guys.  It's odd to me that such a small file
> would have failed to download properly when so many others were
> downloaded during the same process without issue.  I will chalk this
> one up to experience and (hopefully ;^) ) remember it for the future.

I don't think the file had problems downloading; I think you just had
an old copy.  The filename has no version information built in, so
when they change it, the new version has the same name, but a
different checksum.