libxml2 checksum failure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 17:38, Eduard Grebe wrote:

> I've been trying to install the latex2rtf port, but it fails due to  
> a checksum failure on the libxml2 port on which latex2rt depends. I  
> get the following message:
>
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libxml2
> --->  Checksumming libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
> Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz md5  
> ddf3c369964980a238fad0b6ad40532c
> Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz md5  
> b18db4aebd7694a120e88e79688ad84f
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
> Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz sha1  
> 7642a52799efde2e0163d322b2aee8cd9f583268
> Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz sha1  
> 9786a6807b5fbf666623fbfc54789bafe0cbbf89
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
> Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz rmd160  
> 65d0c2cef5ce40751bd72bb54462d9122558fa17
> Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz rmd160  
> 672c85e355c0c304676086a935ade45f35ffe4ec
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
> checksums
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for libxml2):  
> org.macports.activate org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum  
> org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build  
> org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Does anyone know whether the problem is that the portfile is out of  
> date? Is there a workaround?

It downloads, checksums and installs just fine for me. You probably  
got a bad download. Please see the FAQ:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
FAQ#IgetError:checksummd5/sha1/rmd160mismatchforport.WhatcanIdoaboutit