Moviedb - broken or not?

[Andrew P.]

On 10/16/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:05:49PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote:
> > Freshports say moviedb was unbroken this January.
> > I tried installing it at different times on 4.x/5.x/6.x,
> > but always got some kind of mistake.
> >
> > Today it was like this:
> >
> > # make
> > <OK>
> > # make install
> > <...>
> > Adding Distributor List...
> >  ...315653 read
> > /usr/local/libexec/moviedb/mkdb  -create
> > *** Signal 11
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem?
>
> No, this is the same problem I reported to the maintainer without
> response many months ago.  I'll mark it BROKEN again.
>
> Kris
>
>
>

Delete distfiles/moviedb/*, make fetch - but make sure,
that the sources don't change while you're downloading.
It'll work fine then. I've just tried it.

The problem is, that the port doesn't check checksums
at all. I think most of the "broken" reports are because
of broken database sources.