checksum failure and i can't redownload a port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 28, 2010, at 11:43, Vijay Santhanam wrote:

> I was in the middle of installing a port and it's long list of deps, and my wifi connection was disconnected while I was away from the keyboard
> 
> port then reported checksum failures.
> 
> subsequent port install rb19-actionmailer requests still returns checksum failures, despite my wifi working again.
> 
> How do I force macports to redownload the sources and related files again to avoid these checksum failures?

"sudo port clean --all portname" where "portname" is the name of the port whose distribution files (distfiles) you want to delete.