ports question

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:23:33AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:42:24 -0800
> Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	People,
> > 
> > 	Since I managed to upgrade this system's ports tree, 
> > 	I keep things up to date.  Recently, been having trouble
> > 	fetching some ports. openldap is one such.  Upgrading 
> > 	or trying tomake install clean by hand keeps giving me:
> > 
> > 	.
> > 	.
> > 	.
> > 	.
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > http://openldap.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve ........
> 
> fetch is tring to resume the download, but the size on disk (2042658) is
> larger than the actual size of the file. Try deleting from
> /usr/ports/distfiles. It should work.
> 


	This is exactly what has worked previously--or whenever 
	a port tarball hasn't fetched correctly.  This time I 
	mv'd the distfile/* tarball and deleted (pkg_delete -f)
	the port.  No joy.  I'll look further.   

	thanks much,

	gary


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