What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 21:34, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>wrote:

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


I noticed that the snippet I included had something to say about that.  Had
you considered reading it?



> 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) 475-9364vm/sms
>>
>>
>


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