ports question

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

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.

Hope that helps
Gautam