It seems several fink users have run into the corrupted tarball downloads from sourceforge. I did, too, both soem weeks ago, and now again more recently, and I've seen several posts here and on fink-beginners about the same problem:
At 11:06 26 May 2002 John Montague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. I encounter multiple instances of the "mirror problem", i.e., tar.gz files of > about 8K bytes which are actually HTML directing me to use a mirror, as > reflected in this thread. > > My next step is going to be downloading the files that I know are bad during the > bootstrap process into /sw/src and continue, since Fink seems to handle > interrupted installations fairly cleanly. > > All in all, it appears to me that source installation from scratch is broken, or > perhaps the instructions need to be updated somehow. I know enough to keep > plugging along, but perhaps someone who knows more about the internal workings > should try a clean install. > > Many thanks to the various developers - my use of Mac OS X has been greatly > improved by the various versions of Fink and all the GNU and Open Source > software made available through it. > A general solution that has worked for me is soemthing posted here by Martin Costabel, that rescued me from a huge amount of frustration. Martin's solution worked like a charm for me, after two afternoons of corrupted tarball errors. It eliminated my having to do manual downloads, too. I thought this was so useful that I wanted to make sure people see this; hope this doesn't infringe Martin's copyright! BTW, there was no /sw/lib/fink/mirror/sourceforge file in my fink distribution, so I just created it in that directory, with the exact lines suggested by Martin. Here is Martin's email: At 22:13 22 May 2002 Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > > Hmm. I was hoping that a new version would get downloaded. > > > > Unfortunately, the download sites for sourceforge got changed, so you have > > a bad tarball. Try downloading it manually via the link (packages > > tarball) on http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/upgrade.php . > > Unfortunately, I don't know how to make the system use the manually > > downloaded tarball other than to follow the instructions for updating a > > really old fink version (untar the tarball and run the inject.pl script > > that's inside it). > > Another possibility: Change manually the mirror list that tells curl > from where to download the package list: > > Change the file /sw/lib/fink/mirror/sourceforge so that it contains the lines > > Primary: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ > Timestamp: 2002-05-05 > eur-BE: http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ > nam-US: http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ > nam-US: http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ > > Then fink selfupdate should get the packages list from one of the > working mirrors. > > -- > Martin > > -- Prahlad Gupta _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users