Re: [gentoo-science] Fetch failed for sci-libs/mpfi-1.4

[Christopher Schwan <cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de>]

Hi Ralf,

On Saturday 20 November 2010 14:36:49 forenhampel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm new to the mailing list as well to gentoo overlays. I recently tried to
> install sage from the sage-on-gentoo overlay. Unfortunately I wasn't
> able to do so as fetching the package sci-libs/mpfi-1.4, which was
> pulled in as a dependency, failed. There seems to be an certificate
> issue. Please see the Log file at http://pastebin.com/ViYdMu9k .
> I'm not really familiar with certficates, so does this error occur because
> some server is temporarily down or is there more to this?

I am able to reproduce the failure - the server issues a self-signed 
certificate which isnt accepted by portage. Quick solution: download mpfi 
yourself - go into your distfiles directory (usually /usr/portage/distfiles) and 
type

wget --no-check-certificate  \
http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22256/mpfi-1.4.tar.gz

which will manually download the tarball. You will then be able to resume the 
merge. I will try to fix the problem but first have to find out the right 
solution.

Does anyone on the list know how to deal with self signed certificates ?

> 
> Best regards
> 
> Ralf

Cheers,

Christopher