ghostscript-gnu distfile checksum error - WORKAROUND (was: Stop error installing /usr/ports/mail/evolution)

[Barry C.Hawkins]

On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 22:37 US/Eastern, Stephen Hilton wrote:

> On 17 Sep 2003 22:16:58 -0400
> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:
>
>> Barry Hawkins <barryhawkins at mac.com> writes:
>>
>>> 	My own research via Google showed several places I could try
>>> to  download the problematic Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz.  After
>>> downloading the file in question several times from different
>>> locations, including the FreeBSD ftp archives, I continued to receive
>>> the same messages regarding checksum failures.
>>> 	I came across one person's workaround, and was able to use
>>> that  <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-July/
>>> 002738.html>.  However, there are several old postings in various
>>> newsgroups about this problem, some dating back to October 2002.  Why
>>> hasn't this MD5 checksum issue been corrected yet?  Is there another
>>> dependent issue that justifies not fixing this?
>>
>> If I fetch it right now, it fetches fine and matches the checksum.
>> There's nothing wrong with the port -- the problem is in your system
>> failing to get the file.  Remove it, and let the ports system get it
>> on its own, and I *suspect* that the ports system will get it right.
>
>
> I ran into this problem also a while back, just deleted the distfile
> "Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz" and fetched it again. Problem solved!
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Stephen Hilton
> nospam at hiltonbsd.com
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Thanks for the responses guys.  It's odd to me that such a small file 
would have failed to download properly when so many others were 
downloaded during the same process without issue.  I will chalk this 
one up to experience and (hopefully ;^) ) remember it for the future.

Regards,
-- 
Barry C. Hawkins
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