Subject: Re: x11/randrext fetch fails (required by editors/lyx-qt)
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/01/2004 12:57:18
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Ian Zagorskih wrote:

> ===> Required package randrext>=1.0: NOT found
> ===> Verifying package for ../../x11/randrext
> ===> Checking for vulnerabilities in randrext-1.0
> => randrext-1.0.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> => Attempting to fetch randrext-1.0.tar.bz2 from
> http://freedesktop.org/~xlibs/release/.
> => [44061 bytes]
> ftp: Connect to address `131.252.208.82': Connection timed out
> ftp: Can't connect to freedesktop.org: Connection timed out
> => Attempting to fetch randrext-1.0.tar.bz2 from
> ftp://ftp.fi.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/.
> => [44061 bytes]
> 'EPSV': command not understood.
> => Checksum mismatch for randrext-1.0.tar.bz2.
> Make sure the Makefile and checksum file (/usr/pkgsrc/x11/randrext/distinfo)
> are up to date.  If you want to override this check, type
> "/usr/bin/mk NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]".
> *** Error code 1

What probably happened, is that the ftp client took the server's error
message as the file to be fetched. See if
"/usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/randrext-1.0.tar.bz2" is a little text file. In
any case, delete it. Now set FAILOVER_FETCH=YES in "/etc/mk.conf", and
try again.

Frederick