Re: Why do my pkgsrc-2009Q1 tarballs appear broken?

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 11:26:28 PM +0200, Anders Lindgren wrote:
> I just updated my i386 box to 5.0_RC4, and sucked down pkgsrc-2009Q1 to  
> update my packages.
>
> With both the .bz2 and the .gz tarballs (both of which match the  
> fingerprints on ftp.netbsd.org after download), I get:
>
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
>
> during extraction/test of the archives.
>
> Testing the archives with tar -tzf pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.gz 2>&1 gives
> (assuming this does get the stdio buffering right) that this happens  
> between:
>
> pkgsrc/devel/vanessa_logger/distinfo
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
> pkgsrc/mail/bulk_mailer/README.html
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
> pkgsrc/devel/vanessa_socket/patches
>
> (notice the funny filename ordering) and the last one at:
>
> pkgsrc/editors/joe/CVS/Tag
> tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
> pkgsrc/editors/joe/patches/patch-aa
>
> I'm all ears for ideas. :-)

I had a similar problem earlier this month.
At the time I checked out the tree with cvs, no problem.
I have since gotten a good archives, and thought the problem was fixed...

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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:11:05 -0700
From: George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>
To: tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: corrupt pkgsrc.tar.bz2...

I pulled down the pkgsrc bz2 today and got several errors on both
the linux and OS X host I tried to extract it on...

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q1/pkgsrc.tar.bz2

 md5 tmp/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
MD5 (tmp/pkgsrc.tar.bz2) = f14e1b2131a31630a1060255d4592bef
 ls -l tmp/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 geo  geo  21280719 Apr  6 02:40 tmp/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
 tar xjf pkgsrc.tar.bz2
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
^C

any idea what the problem is?


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