pb installing P5-BerkeleyDB

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Thu Dec 7 05:53:02 PST 2006


> >  >> 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.

ok, but on an adjacent 4.11-R machine, this worked, as the msg says:

%cd /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb
%ftp ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz

so I think I'm pretty close on this 4.10 machine, just some little 
tweak somewhere, but I  can't find it.

thanks
Len




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