Re: garnome failing becaues of expat-2.0.0.tar.gz checksum error

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 23:06 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> hi all
> I had garnome fail building gnome 2.15.1 because of a expat checksum error.
> I quickly searched and found this link on the gnome forums [1].
> Searching the list archives didn't turn up a a result, incidentally.
> The fix in the link is to download the package separately and overwrite
> the dud one (which works) [2]. I was wondering if this is something that
> could be fixed by garnome or is a sourceforge problem?

This seems to be an sf.net issue.

To sum it up: The expat fetched automatically by GARNOME from sf.net
failed the checksum test. The expat you manually downloaded from sf.net
worked. So the only difference is automatically vs. manually -- and
frankly, this even is *no* difference at all, in case you used wget to
manually fetch. ;)

I bet you where hit by sf.net. I have seen them delivering a "404 not
found" HTML document, instead of correctly failing. This is most likely
what you got.

The issue is, that the mirror actually delivered the requested document,
although the content is not what has been requested. Thus the failing
checksum test.

In case you still have that first download, have a look at it. If it is
not an HTML document, I'll owe a beer to anyone greeting me with the
word GARNOME at the forthcoming GUADEC. ;-)

...guenther


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