GCC-4.6-20120608 has a corrupt archive or a bad checksum

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 6/12/12 7:04 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>> Bad distfile or checksum for lang/gcc46
> 
> The mirror you are using per your e-mail --
> ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/
> -- provides a broken image.
> 
> I have done several downloads myself, from the original source
> and other mirrors, and always get the correct checksum (and a
> matching tarball), that is, the one matching gcc46/distinfo in
> FreeBSD Ports CVS.
> 
> If you download directly from 
> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.6-20120608/gcc-4.6-20120608.tar.bz2
> and put that into ports/distfiles, that should work?  Alternatively,
> download repeatedly until it hits a different mirror?
> 
> Gerald
>

Now, call my paranoid but shouldn't he warn the mirror's operator ?

Could be a bad transfer from the main site to the mirror , could be a
hijacked source.