difficulty in determining culprit...

[Roger Pack]

Hello all.
Wanted to point out a point of...difficulty experienced with macports.
 In case anyone out there is interested in user feedback for how to
make it a more friendly experience :)

Got this:

$ sudo port install texi2html
--->  Computing dependencies for texi2html
--->  Fetching texi2html
--->  Attempting to fetch texi2html-5.0.tar.bz2 from
http://nongnu.askapache.com/texi2html
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for texi2html
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for texi2html-5.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for texi2html-5.0.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for texi2html-5.0.tar.bz2
***
The non-matching file appears to be HTML. See this page for possible reasons
for the checksum mismatch:
<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers>
***
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Log for texi2html is at:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_texi2html/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>


The only problem being...this error message (nor the log file) tell me
which server it used to download from, nor give me a hint as to how to
use another one.  Perhaps it should link to a FAQ entry that discusses
this?

(for followers, the file was indeed HTML, and manually downloading
http://mirrors.zerg.biz/nongnu/texi2html/texi2html-5.0.tar.bz2  *over
the top* of that file overcame the problem, but that was hard to
figure out--attempting to reinstall always resulted in the same
problem, so there didn't appear to be an easy workaround).
Thanks!
-roger-