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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ports problems Date: 19 Jan 1997 11:43:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5bt1dn$8vt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc05a2$6027e780$d3f5c8cd@einstein> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34249 "Stephane Raimbault" <bsw827@freenet.mb.ca> wrote: > Every time I want to install a port from the internet I get the following > error: > > >> Checksum mismatch for filename.tar.gz > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > > I don't understand why I get this error. It means the file has been modified on the master site. You might get away with removing the files/md5 file, so you'll try to build the port without checksums, but mind you, it's also possible that some of the patches no longer apply. (That's why there is a checksum in the first place.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)