Hi!

Martin Wirblat <sql.mawi at t-link.de> wrote:
> goran at krampe.se wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 2. Even if you feel tempted to delete the whole "sm" dir, it is
> > sufficient to delete the .sgz files. That way you don't needlessly throw
> > away the package cache. :)
> 
> Sometimes the packages themselves were corrupted. Some month ago I found 
> some gz or mcz files in the cache containing only some sort of http or 
> similar error messages. In that special case the original URLs were 
> broken and I had deleted the whole sm directory *before* installing them 
> with the SM package loader. The broken packages then produce the "syntax 
> error".
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Right. Hopefully the new server cache will be able to erase such
problems. But it needs some loving care to get it into shape.
Unfortunately there are some bugs right now (but I am just fixing them
this minute) more or less disabling the cache.

regards, Göran