I, for one, had come accross the problem you describe in http://www.mail-archive.com/fink- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03381.html and will be trying your FTP fix.
I had also reported it some time ago (complete with a broken PHP script I found) to fink-users, but my message does not appear in the archives anywhere (I just tried searching for "kdebase3-ssl", and it was not listed. I re-post it in hope that someone can get HTTP download working again, since FTP can be finicky to use behind some firewalls: R. (original message:) From: Rui Carmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Seg Jun 24, 2002 01:45:14 Europe/Lisbon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt-get install bundle-kde-ssl or kdebase3-ssl does not work. Hello there! I have been trying to install KDE as per the instructions on http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php, which I have followed to the letter. After making sure I had updated fink itself (update, dist-upgrade, etc.), I changed my /sw/etc/apt/sources.list to look like this: <quote> # Default APT sources configuration for Fink # Local package trees - packages built from source locally # NOTE: keep this in sync with the Trees: line in /sw/etc/fink.conf # NOTE: run 'fink scanpackages' to create Packages.gz files deb file:/sw/fink local main deb file:/sw/fink stable main crypto #deb file:/sw/fink unstable main crypto # Official binary distribution: download location for packages # from the latest release deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download release main crypto deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download fink-kde main crypto # Official binary distribution: download location for updated # packages built between releases deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download current main crypto </quote> I then did an apt-get update, which yielded the following output: <quote> [localhost:~] root# apt-get update Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main Packages Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main Release Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/crypto Packages Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/crypto Release Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net fink-kde/main Packages 57% [Waiting for file]FATAL -> Could not set non-blocking flag Operation not supported by device Ign http://us.dl.sourceforge.net fink-kde/main Release E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object [localhost:~] root# Trying to install kdebase3-ssl yielded the same result. This is definetly a package repository problem, and not a package conflict or anything like that, because I have no X packages installed at all at this point (only command-line utilities like netpbm). I then investigated the source URL itself (http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download), which yielded the following results (a Sourceforge PHP script gone awry): <quote from http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download> <? /* index.php */ // get directory level and calculate path to top if (!$level) $level = 0; $binbase = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < $level; $i++) $binbase .= "../"; ... </quote> I then drilled down through the package tree by adding "dists" to the URL (http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/dists/), to find that dists/fink-kde/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc held, in fact, the actual .deb files I wanted to install, and that besides the 'crypto' tree structure being very different from the 'main', .info files for these packages were nowhere to be found (I did not do an exaustive search as of yet) Have I missed something, or is there in fact a problem with installing bundle-kde-ssl and kdebase3-ssl? I can apparently install the non-ssl versions, but that's definelty not what I want. Is this known? Reported? Being fixed? I have searched the mailing-lists for both "kdebase3-ssl" and "bundle-kde" and found no references to this issue. Please reply explicitly to me, since I am no longer subscribed to the list (but do CC: the list on it). Thanks, Rui Carmo ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
