On Jan 10, 2007, at 21:05, Luc Lefebvre wrote:
On 10-Jan-07, at 12:18 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Why don't you try upgrading the port to 1.2.18 on your local machine. ("port edit fox") If it works, then provide us with a patch that a committer can commit.
I got partway. Aplologies for my ignorance in this area. I edited the portfile changing version to 1.2.18 and changing the md5 checksum to that for this particular tgz archive. When I attempt to install I get:
Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state. ---> Fetching fox ---> Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.18.tar.gz from http://www.fox- toolkit.org/ftp/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for fox Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for fox-1.2.18.tar.gz Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
I assume the system tries to validate the checksum at the com.apple.checksum website which appears to not exist (or at least be down).
Any suggestions as to what I should be doing next?
Well, "com.apple.checksum" isn't about a website; it's just a unique identifier for a piece of software, in this case the checksum software. And the message just means that the md5 checksum you entered doesn't match the md5 checksum of the archive. Perhaps one of the downloads (either the one you did manually, or the one MacPorts just did) was incomplete, and therefore the md5 checksum wasn't what it should be.