On Sun, Nov 20, 2004 at 18:02:54PM +0000, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> The pkg proggy attempted to get php but failed with this error message:
>
> => Couldn't fetch php-4.2.3.tar.gz - please try to retrieve this
> => file manually into /usr/pkgsrc_distfiles/ and try again.
>
> so I did, and it's definitely there as shown:
>
> root@kenmore /pkgsrc/www/php4$ ls -al /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles |grep php
> -rw-r--r--   1 root   wsrc       5452 Nov 20 17:37 php-4.2.3.tar.gz

That file's much too small to be the php source code. Perhaps the
transfer failed before it completed? Try deleting the that file and
try again. BTW, your pkgsrc is old... the current pkgsrc contains php
4.3.9.
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