Havard,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:49:02AM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > [...], when I tried to untar NetBSD-1.5.3/source/syssrc.tgz
> > from ftp.netbsd.org, I discovered that the archive is corrupt.  I
> > downloaded it twice and got the same result each time.
>
> How did the corruption utter itself?  I just tried to reproduce this
> problem, and a "tar tfz syssrc.tgz" on a freshly fetched file
> completed without errors, listing usr/src/usr.sbin/dbsym/dbtest.c as
> the last file (the path is source/sets/syssrc.tgz, BTW).
>
> You did of course make sure to download the file in binary mode (which
> would be the default if you used NetBSD's ftp client)?
>
From memory, I got some message about "skipping to the next archive"
or somesuch.  I don't remember the last file it extracted, but it
was something in the /usr/src/sys/dev directory.  This happened on
two separate ftps of the file from a NetBSD client, so it shouldn't
have been possible for me to forget to put it in binary mode.
Unfortunately, I deleted the file and no longer have it for reference.
I have subsequently upgraded my system to 1.5.3.  I just tried to
download syssrc.tgz again and this time it untars with no errors.
I'm reluctant to downgrade my system back to 1.5.2 to try to
reproduce the problem again -- clearly it was at my end given the
behavior.

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Bill Dorsey
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