On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:20 AM, myron wrote: > >> I tried installing netcat and the following problems came up. I >> couldn't find anything in the macports archvies on this issue. >> I'm new to macports (and really love it), but it looks like the >> checksum is wrong in Portfile. Should I just change it to what the >> target has? >> >> myron$ sudo port -dnv install netcat > ... >> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for nc110.tgz >> Portfile checksum: nc110.tgz md5 402632f2fe01c169ff19a0ad6e9d608c >> Distfile checksum: nc110.tgz md5 13826ef466aeb862635f89688b8a74bc > > One of two possibilities here, either the download became corrupted > during transfer, or you happened to grab it from the third mirror > listed, which returns an HTML page [1]. Try running > > sudo port clean --all netcat > > Then try your install again. If it still fails, do the clean again, > then before you do the install, run > sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/netcat port - > v fetch netcat > This will force port to grab from the MacPorts mirror first [2]. > After that, the install should work.
Repeating the first step didn't work. However, the second step did work. It download, so then I installed. myron$ sudo port install netcat ---> Verifying checksum(s) for netcat ---> Extracting netcat ---> Configuring netcat ---> Building netcat with target generic ---> Staging netcat into destroot ---> Installing netcat 1.10_2 ---> Activating netcat 1.10_2 ---> Cleaning netcat But it doesn't seem to have installed anything in /opt/local/bin myron$ sudo find / -name netcat -print /opt/local/share/doc/netcat /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/netcat /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/netcat /opt/local/var/macports/software/netcat /opt/local/var/macports/software/netcat/1.10_2/opt/local/share/doc/ netcat /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/net/ netcat port installed returns that netcat is installed, though ... netcat @1.10_2 (active) ... > > > Bryan > > [1] - <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16296> > [2] - <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures> > > >> >> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file >> checksums >> Warning: the following items did not execute (for netcat): >> org.macports.activate org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum >> org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build >> org.macports.destroot org.macports.install >> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. >> >> >> --myron >> ================================= >> Myron Kowalski >> MoCoSIN Network/Systems Administrator >> Moravian College >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users