[Newbies] FFI, ODBC

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi!

"Miron Brezuleanu" <mbrezu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Dec 20, 2007 9:28 PM,  <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> > > 3) squeak vm 3.10 with image 3.10.gamma.7159 also gives the sha1 error
> > > when installing FFI.
> >
> > Hmmm. Make sure your map is updated btw - if it is not then that would
> > explain this I guess.
> 
> That's a bit weird - shouldn't squeak download the content and the
> checksum, then calculate the content checksum and compare to
> downloaded checksum? It sounds like I need to download the checksum
> separately :-)

All meta data is in the map - including the checksums. Generally you
would never experience this problem even with an outdated map - unless
maintainers *remove* package releases or *change the URL/file* that the
release references. Both behaviors are odd.

AFAICT in your case the URL was modified, with a new file, and
presumably the old file has been deleted from the file store.

Now... disregarding all the above - using an outdated map is quite
silly. :)

> After updateing the map the FFI downloads OK, but it still takes
> forever to download ODBC. I can interrupt it with Alt + '.' and it
> looks like it's waiting forever while trying to DNS resolve
> 'wiki.squeak.org' (which is resolved instantly if I try to ping that
> host from a shell).
> 
> The method is waitForCompletionUntil: in class NetNameResolver, and it
> seems to be locked in the waitTimeoutMSecs message right after the
> "wait for resolver to be available" comment. (using the 3.10 image and
> VM)

Dunno, I saw you mentioned that a restart solves it - odd indeed.

> Any clues on what to try next? :-) (I've downloaded and installed the
> SqueakV39 sources, where do I find the V310 sources?)

There is no such thing - for 3.9+ you use the V39 file.

There are at this point only V3 and V39. This file very seldom changes,
and we have used V3 for a loooong time, but with version 3.9 a new
sources file was generated since the chnages file was getting too large.
The changes file contains all modifications since the generation of the
sources file.

regards, Göran