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curl-ca-bundle Macports Checksum Woes

Just got done pulling my hair out over some pretty stupid MacPorts problems, but eventually got things working again, so I figured I would share. My problem started with trying to upgrade curl to support SSL so that I could do git over http yadda yadda yadda. Little did I know that I could have just upgraded curl in the first place, but this serves to address another point. I’ll spare all the lame details, but in essence I got to a point where I was trying to re-install git-core but curl-ca-bundle, a dependency, was failing with this:

$ sudo port install curl-ca-bundle
---> Computing dependencies for curl-ca-bundle
---> Verifying checksum(s) for curl-ca-bundle
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for certdata-1.58.txt
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for certdata-1.58.txt
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for certdata-1.58.txt
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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After some googling around, I found the bug and saw that it had been fixed. Great, the fix is only available in trunk. Ok so I’m thinking, I’ll just pull down trunk a build and run it. Why not I like to live dangerously:

Installing MacPorts from Subversion

Nope, that didn’t work either:

$ sudo ./configure --enable-readline
...
checking for existence of /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh... loading
checking for Tcl public headers... /usr/include
checking for tclsh... /opt/local/bin//tclsh
checking for Tcl package directory... /opt/local/lib/tcl8.5
checking whether tclsh was compiled with threads... no
configure: error: tcl wasn't compiled with threads enabled

Not really getting anywhere now am I. Dammit. But after scratching my head for a few minutes, I said, wait… this is all over a few lousy checksums? C’mon…So, in looking at the actual commit from the bug, I saw that it was just an updated Portfile and lightbulbs went off. All I had to do was copy the updated Portfile to my ports tree and port should see the updated checksums:

# cd to curl-ca-bundle
cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/net/curl-ca-bundle

# backup Portfile just in case, even though it's totally jank
sudo cp Portfile{,.bak}

# replace Portfile with one from trunk
sudo cp /opt/mports/trunk/dports/net/curl-ca-bundle/Portfile .

# install package that depends on curl-ca-bundle, in my case, git-core
sudo port install git-core

Seems like if I can’t install git-core, a pretty common package, then a lot of people are probably having this same problem. Hope this helps, I was at a loss for quite a while.

Beer-thirty!

Tags: checksums, curl-ca-bundle, hacks, macports, nerdery, ports

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