Sparcitecture

Lately I have noticed that several packages in the Darwin Ports distribution fail to build properly, with the “port install” command either complaining about being unable to open the file or reporting a checksum mismatch. All of the ports in question (txt2html, nethack, rxvt) were hosted at SourceForge and when I followed the actual build process it appeared the source downloads were not completing and the errors were misleading.

Until DP gets their ports tree fixed, you can download the correct file from SourceForge manually and place it in /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/ and run the install command and everything should build properly.

[composed and posted with ecto]