RE: Broken libdb2?
Please verify that you are downloading in BINARY
mode. Unlike ftp.debian.org, alpha.gnu.org does not
automatically set itself to binary when downloading a
binary file.
(Speaking from experience) :)
-Brent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Comech [mailto:comech@math.sunysb.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Broken libdb2?
>
>
> Hi, this is to echo this complaint:
>
> Per Lundberg wrote on Tue, 8 Jun 1999:
> > The libdb2 on alpha seems to be broken.. and I can't find it in the
> > distribution. It would be nice to have a working 'man' package..
>
> dpkg --contents (both under linux and hurd) says
>
> % dpkg --contents libdb2_2.4.14-1_hurd-i386.deb
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-05-03 16:45 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-05-03 16:45 usr/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-05-03 16:45 usr/lib/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 255456 1999-05-03 16:44
> usr/lib/libdb2.so.2.4.14
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): unexpected end of file in member data \
> in libdb2_2.4.14-1_hurd-i386.deb
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
>
> Although there might be intrinsic problems with the package,
> it looks that
> not the entire thing was uploaded, since I believe I
> downloaded the entire
> thing (I tried both alpha.gnu.org and
> ftp1.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/GNU/alpha):
>
> % ls -l libdb2_2.4.14-1_hurd-i386.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197955 Jun 11 17:39
> libdb2_2.4.14-1_hurd-i386.deb
>
> It is not that I hope I'd understand anything about Hurd
> after man starts
> working, but still...
>
> Thank you,
> andrew
>
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