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



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