Problem installing Postgis

Andre-John Mas ajmas at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 15 11:39:56 PDT 2009


On 15-Apr-2009, at 07:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 17:39, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Andre-John Mas said:
>>
>>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for postgis
>>> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for postgis-1.3.3.tar.gz
>>> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file
>>> checksums
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> Could be related to ticket #16691:
>>
>> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16691>
>>
>> They redid that tarball a couple of times, perhaps they've updated  
>> it again?
>
> #16691 was never fixed. They updated the distfile 6 months ago, as  
> you noted in the ticket, and the maintainer never updated the  
> portfile to track that change.
>
> The stopgap committed in r40782 to use our distfiles mirror first  
> stopped working with MacPorts 1.7.0 which tries master_sites in ping  
> order instead of the order listed in the portfile.
>
> Since the maintainer has not responded to the issue, someone else  
> should update the port. Don't forget to change dist_subdir to  
> something new, e.g. ${name}/${version}_${revision}. Unless the old  
> and new tarballs install identical software, the revision should  
> also be bumped.

In the meantime, is there any way I can install this, ignoring the  
checksum?

André-John


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