Unable to Upgrade Xscreensaver-gnome 4.15

[Bob Perry]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> 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:
> ==================================
> # 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.
>>
> ==================================
>
> 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
>
===>  Vulnerability check disabled
===>  Found saved configuration for xscreensaver-gnome-4.14_1
 >> xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
 >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
Receiving xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz (4045811 bytes): 12% (ETA 20:41)
519728 bytes transferred in 182.3 seconds (2.78 kBps)
fetch: xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 519728/4045811 
bytes
 >> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz: 
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
 >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
 >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome.

Updated ports twice today and ran distclean.  Still no change.

Thanks for checking.

Bob Perry

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