What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

[Yves S. Garret]

Yeah, this isn't the first install that's crashed and burned for me.  How do
I fix this issue?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
> wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
>
>
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