Re: Checksum SHA1 mismatch for tex-helvetic-2009/helvetic.tar.xz

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Mon 27 Sep 2010 at 04:55:13 PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:04:40 +0900, George Georgalis 
><george%galis.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>>On Sun 26 Sep 2010 at 06:17:23 PM -0700, George Georgalis wrote:
>>>I've been getting checksum errors today for fonts/tex-helvetic
>>>any idea why? pkgsrc-2010Q2
>>
>>most (all the ones I checked) of the packages with tex in the name
>>are failing checksum?
>
>texlive distfiles are replaced after 2010Q2 out.

can you clairfy? I seem to recall last fall or spring a movement
to use the tex-live internal package system vs pkgsrc packages for
the various components. I don't know the entry point for that,
but is that what you are referring to?

>Set FAILOVER_FETCH on /etc/mk.conf, and you can skip checksum mismatch files
>and try to fetch from the next sites from MASTER_SITES.
>It result in fetch from MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, and it will be succeeded.
>
>Or you can use followings, and fetch from the site first instead of 
>MASTER_SITES.
>MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/
>(or somewhere else that you are using as MASTER_SITE_BACKUP)

I've not used these override parameters before. Seems like a lot of trouble
when the solution is releasing filenames with version numbers in them.
Perhaps we can persuade upstream to copy files or use simlinks, so they can
concurrently host versioned files and their -preferred.tgz version.

-George