On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:23:33AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:42:24 -0800
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > People,
> >
> > Since I managed to upgrade this system's ports tree,
> > I keep things up to date. Recently, been having trouble
> > fetching some ports. openldap is one such. Upgrading
> > or trying tomake install clean by hand keeps giving me:
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > http://openldap.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve ........
>
> fetch is tring to resume the download, but the size on disk (2042658) is
> larger than the actual size of the file. Try deleting from
> /usr/ports/distfiles. It should work.
>
This is exactly what has worked previously--or whenever
a port tarball hasn't fetched correctly. This time I
mv'd the distfile/* tarball and deleted (pkg_delete -f)
the port. No joy. I'll look further.
thanks much,
gary
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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