Hey people!

lately i've been having a lot of problems with installing fink packages.
upon further examination it seems like due to the fact that sourceforge 
has moved to a mirror system, fink downloads are broken.

has anyone been able to work around this?


  # fink install xfree86-rootless
Reading package info...
Information about 427 packages read in 2 seconds.
pkg xfree86-rootless  version ###
pkg xfree86-rootless  version 4.2.0-2
The following package will be installed or updated:
  xfree86-rootless
The following additional package will be installed:
  xfree86-base
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
rm -rf xfree86-base-4.2.0-4
mkdir -p /sw/src/xfree86-base-4.2.0-4
tar -xvzf /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
### tar failed, exit code 2
Unpacking the tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 
failed.
The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. Do 
you
want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n]
rm -f /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz
curl -f -L -O http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/X420src-1.tgz
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time             
Curr.
                                  Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left    
Speed
100  8556    0  8556    0     0   8193      0 --:--:--  
0:00:01 --:--:--  5859
tar -xvzf /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
### tar failed, exit code 2
Unpacking the tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 
failed.
The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. Do 
you
want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] n
Failed: unpacking tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 
failed
# head /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz
<HTML><HEAD>
                 <TITLE>Select a Mirror for File: 
/fink/X420src-1.tgz</TITLE>
                 </HEAD>
                 <style type="text/css">
    body {
     background-image: url(img/sf-stipple.png);
     background-color: #aaa;
         margin: 0;
    }
    td { font: small sans-serif; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 
0.5em;}





curl just downloads the mirror selection page from sourceforge instead 
of the actual packages.
someone suggest that i should just download each package individually 
using a web browser, but this is hardly a viable solution when dealing 
with 20+ packages.

thanks in advance!

Emil Holt


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