Unable to Upgrade Xscreensaver-gnome 4.15

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:00:00 -0500, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Tried unsuccessfully this morning to upgrade xscreensaver-gnome-14.1_1, 
> to xscreensaver-gnome-4.15.  First 4 attempts using portupgrade resulted 
> in a truncated file .  The alternate site for downgrade was 
> ftp.FreeBSD.org/, but the file wasn't there.
>
> Tried to port the file manually as suggested, but the upgrade program 
> failed to recognize the new tar file indicating that there was a 
> "checksum mismatch".  I did notice that the truncated file had a Feb 26 
> timestamp while the file I manually downloaded from www.jwz.org had a 
> Mar 6 timestamp.
>
> I really haven't used the screensaver function in gnome for some time, 
> so this is not an urgent matter.  However, just thought I'd pass along 
> my experience.

Works fine here:
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# make extract
===>  Vulnerability check disabled
>> xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz                      100% of 3950 kB  343 kBps 
00m00s
===>  Extracting for xscreensaver-gnome-4.15
>> Checksum OK for xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz.
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Perhaps, you can try 'make distclean' then try it again? Try to update 
your ports tree first, before you give it another try.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Bob Perry


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