Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack
Didn't he download his packages on a win machine ?
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:59:51PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely
> > > baffles me...
> >
> > > See http://bugs.debian.org/84829
> >
> > Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and
> > tar still fails to unpack, he must have somehow managed to install a screwed
> > up tar or gzip (or md5sum) in both of his boxes;
>
> That's what I thought, but tar or gzip screwed up the same way on both boxes?
>
> > Either that or md5sum is doing something REALLY stupid (or his mirror has a
> > corrupted file that matches the md5sum of the good one -- kinda unprobable).
>
> Extremely improbable. md5sum is designed to make it effectively impossible, which
> is why signatures can be trusted.
>
> > The assumptions above assume that he can unpack and build debs of other
> > packages just fine.
>
> He never gave a straight answer on this, but I believe this is the case.
>
> If nobody can duplicate his problem, I'll assume it's a local thing and close.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Adam P.
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