What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

[Yves S. Garret]

I meant ask you guys, what do you mean by this:

"
Try renaming the downloaded patch files to have a .html extension and
loading them in a browser.
"

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 21:01, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> > In any case, Oracle being who they are, I'd suspect less a 404 than that
> they tossed in some license agreement nonsense and it'll be necessary to
> manually agree and download the patches (wouldn't be the first time they did
> it, even).
>
> A 404 error would not be a problem for MacPorts; it would simply try the
> next server. What is a problem is a server that delivers a 200 OK status
> code but then delivers a file other than the requested one. That is what
> happens when you have MisbehavingServers, or license pages as you say, but
> there is no license page from Oracle in this case. I have just now verified
> that the files on Oracle's server have checksums that match the portfile. I
> see no reason to suspect it's anything other than the possibilities already
> enumerated in the wiki:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers
>
> Note we also have an issue filed about this issue with db46:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30717
>
> Though no additional information was provided there so it's hard to argue
> that that's anything different.
>
>
> > Try renaming the downloaded patch files to have a .html extension and
> loading them in a browser.
>
> Yes, please do this.
>
>
>
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