Sane backends wrong checksum?

Ross Walker rswwalker at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 12:35:21 PDT 2008


On Oct 4, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2008, at 00:13, Ross Walker wrote:
>
>> I've been getting checksum errors on the sane-backends and cleaning
>> out the workdir doesn't seem to fix it.
>>
>> Is the checksum in the portfile current?
>>
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for sane-backends
>> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file
>> checksums
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>> rivendell:~ root# port clean --work sane-backends
>> --->  Cleaning sane-backends
>> rivendell:~ root# port upgrade outdated
>> --->  Fetching sane-backends
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for sane-backends
>> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz
>> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file
>> checksums
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>> rivendell:~ root#
>
> Cleaning the work directory is insufficient because the distfile is  
> not stored in the work directory. It's stored in the distpath. You  
> need to "port clean --all sane-backends" to remove both the work  
> directory and the distpath. This is documented in the FAQ on  
> checksum errors:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ 
> FAQ#IgetError:checksummd5sha1rmd160mismatchforport.WhatcanIdoaboutit
>
> It works fine for me, so hopefully you just got a bad download and  
> cleaning will let you download it again. If not, please show us  
> which server it downloaded the file from; the port defines several  
> possible download locations.
>

Doh! That did it, thanks.

For some reason I seem to get bit by bad checksums more with the sane  
packages then any other.

-Ross



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