> Hi Ralf,
> 
> On Saturday 20 November 2010 14:36:49 forenhampel wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm new to the mailing list as well to gentoo overlays. I recently tried
> > to install sage from the sage-on-gentoo overlay. Unfortunately I wasn't
> > able to do so as fetching the package sci-libs/mpfi-1.4, which was
> > pulled in as a dependency, failed. There seems to be an certificate
> > issue. Please see the Log file at http://pastebin.com/ViYdMu9k . I'm not
> > really familiar with certficates, so does this error occur because some
> > server is temporarily down or is there more to this?
> 
> I am able to reproduce the failure - the server issues a self-signed
> certificate which isnt accepted by portage. Quick solution: download mpfi
> yourself - go into your distfiles directory (usually
> /usr/portage/distfiles) and type
> 
> wget --no-check-certificate  \
> http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22256/mpfi-1.4.tar.gz
> 
> which will manually download the tarball. You will then be able to resume
> the merge. I will try to fix the problem but first have to find out the
> right solution.
> 
> Does anyone on the list know how to deal with self signed certificates ?
> 
I cannot reproduce the issue. ebuild fetch and emerge both work like a charm
and download the file. 
Two possibilities:
1) temporary issues, you just fetch at the wrong time.
2) version of portage and list of FEAURES please

Nevertheless we should change the SRC_URI to reflect the move to https.
I will see to revbump to 1.5 as well.

Francois

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