netcat won't install

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:20 AM, myron wrote:

> I tried installing netcat and the following problems came up. I  
> couldn't find anything in the macports archvies on this issue.
> I'm new to macports (and really love it), but it looks like the  
> checksum is wrong in Portfile. Should I just change it to what the  
> target has?
>
> myron$ sudo port -dnv install netcat
...
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for nc110.tgz
> Portfile checksum: nc110.tgz md5 402632f2fe01c169ff19a0ad6e9d608c
> Distfile checksum: nc110.tgz md5 13826ef466aeb862635f89688b8a74bc

One of two possibilities here, either the download became corrupted  
during transfer, or you happened to grab it from the third mirror  
listed, which returns an HTML page [1].  Try running

sudo port clean --all netcat

Then try your install again.  If it still fails, do the clean again,  
then before you do the install, run
sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/netcat port - 
v fetch netcat
This will force port to grab from the MacPorts mirror first [2].   
After that, the install should work.

Bryan

[1] - <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16296>
[2] - <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures>


>
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
> checksums
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for netcat):  
> 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.
>
>
> --myron
> =================================
> Myron Kowalski
> MoCoSIN Network/Systems Administrator
> Moravian College
> myron at cs.moravian.edu