What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 21:20, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>wrote:

> I tried installing gedit and this is the issue that I encountered:
>
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.1
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.1
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.1
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.2
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.2
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.2
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.4
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.4
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.4
> ***
> The non-matching file appears to be HTML. See this page for possible
> reasons
> for the checksum mismatch:
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers>
>

db46 is Sleepycat DB 4.6, which is now owned by Oracle... who apparently
doesn't worry about consistency or release engineering (like that's a
surprise...).  Or maybe they're trying to kill Sleepycat DB off by adding
more and more hoops to jump through.

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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