next hurdle in installing doxygen

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Feb 27 01:12:10 PST 2009


Bakki Kudva wrote:
> I am getting a md5 mismatch...
> --->  Attempting to fetch db-4.6.21.tar.gz from
> http://distfiles.macports.org/db4
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for db46
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
> 
> I thought that perhaps the fetch was bad and thought I would refetch it. So...
> I did a port -f clean --dist db46 hoping to delete the downloaded
> source and patch files thinking reinstall would fetch and do the
> md5sums again. But after the clean port complained it couldn't find
> the source files. So I manually created the db4 directory and curled
> the source/patch files into it. Now if I try to install db46 I get ...
> 
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for db46
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> 
> So somehow the clean operation also hosed the md5 files?

No, the file simply doesn't have the md5 hash that is listed in the
Portfile. This looks just like this ticket:
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18515>

It was fixed 3 days ago, so you should just need to selfupdate/sync and
it should be fine.

- Josh


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