On Oct 22, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> 
>> On 22.10.2015 10:17 AM, Dominik Reichardt wrote:
>>> Thanks - gonna be patient and stopping myself from selfupdates whenever the 
>>> "bad checksum reports" arrive here ;)
>> 
>> FWIW, these "bad checksum reports" seem to have been caused by SourceForge, 
>> in
>> the sense that their mirrors sent out 404 not found error messages instead of
>> the actual files, c.f. 
>> https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops/status/656886938113175552
>> 
>> MacPorts should currently be operating fine when it comes to distfiles.
> 
> If SourceForge was sending a 404 Not Found HTTP status code, that would not 
> be a problem for MacPorts. It's only a problem if SourceForge was sending a 
> 200 OK HTTP status code but delivering an HTML file instead of the distfile 
> we requested, and in that case, MacPorts would print a message stating that 
> the file it got was an HTML file. That was not stated in the error shown 
> above.
> 

Oh sorry, I was thinking of a different thread. That *was* stated in the error 
above.  But we haven't seen what the HTML file says...

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