pb installing P5-BerkeleyDB

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 15:06, Len Conrad wrote:

>  >> Checksum mismatch for bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz.
>  >> Checksum OK for bdb/patch.4.1.25.1.
>
> ===>  Refetch for 1 more times files: bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled
>
>  >> db-4.1.25.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb.
>  >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/.
>
> fetch: http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz:
> Moved Permanently
>
>  >> Attempting to fetch from
>
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/bdb/.
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz:
> size mismatch: expected 3080234, actual 2901161

The problem is that Sleepycat repackaged their tarball at some point this 
year, changing the filesize and checksum without changing the version number. 
I have a feeling I got round this on one box by upgrading the ports tree 
(which of course adds its own problems with newer ports, dependencies etc), 
and on another box by copying the checksum and file size from 
http://www.freshports.org/ into the port's distinfo.

It is an extremely irritating problem: in an ideal world no-one would ever 
change the size/checksum of their main distfile without also changing the 
filename/version number, even if only slightly.

Jonathan