Unable to Upgrade Xscreensaver-gnome 4.15

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 02:21:16 -0500, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:00:00 -0500, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Tried unsuccessfully this morning to upgrade 
>>> xscreensaver-gnome-14.1_1, to xscreensaver-gnome-4.15.  First 4 
>>> attempts using portupgrade resulted in a truncated file .  The 
>>> alternate site for downgrade was ftp.FreeBSD.org/, but the file wasn't 
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Tried to port the file manually as suggested, but the upgrade program 
>>> failed to recognize the new tar file indicating that there was a 
>>> "checksum mismatch".  I did notice that the truncated file had a Feb 
>>> 26 timestamp while the file I manually downloaded from www.jwz.org had 
>>> a Mar 6 timestamp.
>>>
>>> I really haven't used the screensaver function in gnome for some time, 
>>> so this is not an urgent matter.  However, just thought I'd pass along 
>>> my experience.
>>
>>
>> Works fine here:
>> ==================================
>> # make extract
>> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled
>>
>>>> xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
>>>> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>>>> Attempting to fetch from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
>>>
>> xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz                      100% of 3950 kB  343 kBps 
>> 00m00s
>> ===>  Extracting for xscreensaver-gnome-4.15
>>
>>>> Checksum OK for xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz.
>>>
>> ==================================
>>
>> Perhaps, you can try 'make distclean' then try it again? Try to update 
>> your ports tree first, before you give it another try.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled
> ===>  Found saved configuration for xscreensaver-gnome-4.14_1
>  >> xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>  >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
> Receiving xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz (4045811 bytes): 12% (ETA 20:41)
> 519728 bytes transferred in 182.3 seconds (2.78 kBps)
> fetch: xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 519728/4045811 
> bytes
>  >> Attempting to fetch from 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz: 
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>  >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>  >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>  Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome.
>
> Updated ports twice today and ran distclean.  Still no change.

Can you try different mirror? 
http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/unix/src/misc/xscreensaver-4.15.tar.gz

To me, looks like it's something wrong with your internet vs www.jwz.org?

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks for checking.
>
> Bob Perry


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