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

[Karl Goetz <kamping_kaiser internode on net>]

guenther wrote:
> 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.

i expect your correct, as i got this for a second file after that.
> 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. ;-)

I clobered it, but it was only a few kb, so probably html :)
kk

> ...guenther


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