One library fails port md5 checksum

[Toomas Aas]

Hello!

I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64 and have amanda-client and 
amanda-server installed from ports. Initially I had these ports at 
version 2.5.1p2 but as I was having some weird problems I decided to 
remove these versions and upgrade to latest available Amanda ports, 2.5.1p3.

On removing the old version of amanda-client port, I got this error message:

pkg_delete: '/usr/local/lib/libamandad.a' fails original MD5 checksum - 
not deleted.

Oh my, I thought, I have a corrupt library. This is probably what caused 
all those weird problems I was having with Amanda.

I removed /usr/local/lib/libamandad.a manually and installed the new 
Amanda ports (2.5.1p3). The problems that I was initially having with 
2.5.1p2 seemed to be gone, but I discovered that I had given one 
configuration parameter wrong to the port build, so I decided to remove 
the amanda-server and amanda-client ports and re-install them with 
correct parameters. To my great surprise, on removing the new 
amanda-client port, I got the identical error message:

pkg_delete: '/usr/local/lib/libamandad.a' fails original MD5 checksum - 
not deleted.

I initially had these two settings in /etc/make.conf

CPUTYPE=nocona
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe

(This box has Intel Pentium D 945 CPU)

I commented them out and removed and re-installed the Amanda ports once 
more. Still, the checksum that is listed in 
/var/db/pkg/amanda-client/+CONTENTS for /usr/local/lib/libamandad.a does 
not match the actual md5 checksum of the file. Having seen this, I again 
enabled these options in /etc/make.conf and rebuilt the Amanda ports 
once more. The checksum mismatch is still there.

What might cause this? This kind of "random" corruption is generally 
attributed to hardware failure, but it seems not random enough, 
considering that I have now re-built Amanda 4 times and each time it's 
the same file that ends up having the checksum mismatch. Also, the box 
doesn't seem to suffer from any other problems such as random signal 11s 
etc.

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Toomas Aas

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