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anymore.  Do a selfupdate-cvs and try again.
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Emil holt wrote:

> 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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