Bash 4.3.28 checksum failure

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 2, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>> I tried that very ingenious shell loop and found I had three mirrors failing the checksum for that patch file, each of them giving different checksums even among themselves:
>> 
>> Portfile checksum: 1e05d95e4abd32b631d991fa374d030c1651645d (respected by most mirrors).
>> 
>> http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/bash/bash43-028:
>> SHA1(bash43-028)= 7e96232c3265571fe4f85d33b83684d525b1b246
>> 
>> This server is on-and-off closing the connection before transfer is complete, so sometimes checksum fails and sometimes it doesn't. But in all cases HTTP 200 OK is returned, so it might affect builds.
>> 
>> http://aarnet.au.distfiles.macports.org/pub/macports/mpdistfiles/bash/bash43-028:
>> SHA1(bash43-028)= 992fa55af8366819627e5fafa686ed956b24bc4f
>> 
>> This one is indeed returning 404, so it can be ignored.
>> 
>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/bash/bash43-028:
>> SHA1(bash43-028)= 7d05360cf240509e210ac1f81e2cda75addb4b3e
>> 
>> This is also returning 404.
>> 
>> I hadn't noticed these are all our mirrors, so maybe there's something we can do to correct the errors?
> 
> The *.distfiles.macports.org servers are donated by and managed by others. You can contact their administrators at the addresses listed on this page:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors

Right, will do that. Specially with lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org, which seems to be having a bit more serious problems.

> 
> As for svn.macports.org, that's the absolute last resort fallback URL used for all ports, if the file is not available at any other location. For 99.999% of our ports, it is normal for there to be no file there.
> 

Oh, I see, hadn't realized that.

Thanks for the insights!


- jmpp