On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:24PM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:21:23AM -0900, Mel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote:
> > >
> > > I am having the same problem (I posted a related question to the
> > > list last night). Anything dealing with XML and docbook is failing
> > > to build. I have managed to install a few of the problem ports by
> > > adding the package instead, but when I left the house this morning,
> > > yet another related package had failed.
> > 
> > Do it a few times in a row, the sourceforge servers are overloaded
> > apparently and return false errors.
> > Either that, or familiarize yourself with XML categories, download the
> > file and update the XML cat file to use a local version rather then
> > remote for that particular file.
> 
> Uh, tuning in late here. Also running portupgrade and had problems with
> policy and XML stuff.
> 
> I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There was
> a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and
> reinstall and things were able to build once again.
> 
> Portupgrade is still building so I can't get at my shell history to
> verify.
> 
> Did something similar for the international library stuff.

Actually, there's something else going on. I can build policykit on FBSD
alpha 6.4-stable fine, but it fails on 8.0-current. I tried repeating
download many times, it always goes fine on 6.4 but always fails on 8.0,
of which I deduce that overloaded sourceforge is not to blame.

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