After updating gimp2 to 2.6.2 last night, an incidence was reported this morning of checksum failure during a fetch from one site out of many on the port's master_sites list. Fetches from other sites on the list were successful and so it appears that this one site had a bogus copy of the distribution on its server. Nonetheless, the attempt to fetch failed with no recourse for the user other than to remove the offending server from the Portfile. Not something that the casual user of MacPorts should be expected to do.
I wonder if it would be a difficult thing to modify port to retry with other sites on the list until a successful fetch occurs or all listed sites are exhausted? Isn't this the behavior when a fetch from one of the master_sites fails for other reasons? (timeout, file doesn't exist, etc)? Seems that this would make fetches more reliable to the end user without compromising verification of the validity of the distribution. Dave _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
