[xml] libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz may be corrupt on main FTP site

[Jacob Wan <jakewan obcentric com>]

Hello,

I think libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz may be corrupt at the xmlsoft.org FTP 
site.  Its md5 hash doesn't match the value expected by a some 
distributions.  In my case, the FreeBSD libxml2 port is failing to 
compile when it downloads the file from ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ and 
compares that file's md5 hash to what that port thinks it should be.

Hash expected by the FreeBSD libxml2 port: 714b0683b1ec4bdc63bc356d729f9b18
Hash of xmlsoft.org's file produced by md5sums: 
f0a476f78189f9e17efbf83e99443526

While I was searching for solutions, I noted that the problem was also 
noticed by a user of MacPorts (thread at 
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15230).  Their solution was to use the 
copy of the file kept at Antonin Sprinzl's ftp site, which does have the 
expected md5 hash value.

It might also be important that when I actually try (in FreeBSD 
7.0-RELEASE) to extract the contents of libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz from the 
xmlsoft.org site ("tar -xzf libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz"), it only extracts 
some of the files and produces the following errors:

"tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors."

Hopefully this information may be of some use.

Sincerely,
Jacob Wan
jakewan obcentric com

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