On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:12:47PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:23:33AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:42:24 -0800
> > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > People,
> > >
> > > Since I managed to upgrade this system's ports tree,
> > > I keep things up to date. Recently, been having trouble
> > > fetching some ports. openldap is one such. Upgrading
> > > or trying tomake install clean by hand keeps giving me:
> > >
> > > .
> > > fetch: invalid size ( 2042658)
> > > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve ........
> >
> > fetch is tring to resume the download, but the size on disk (2042658) is
> > larger than the actual size of the file. Try deleting from
> > /usr/ports/distfiles. It should work.
> >
>
>
> This is exactly what has worked previously--or whenever
> a port tarball hasn't fetched correctly. This time I
> mv'd the distfile/* tarball and deleted (pkg_delete -f)
> the port. No joy. I'll look further.
>
Well, to answer my own posting, I hacked the
/distfile and removed the "(SIZE) =" line.
Now openldap21-* is flowing across. Dunno
why the port assumed the file or parts of it
were here. Next to rm the old version and
update... . --Well, once it builds and installs!
gary
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