Re: pkgsrc NetBSD 8.99.2/x86_64 2017-09-08 19:21

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:09:06PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:06:56PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:20:11AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 07:29:24PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > >  > devel/acme                                   pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
>  > > 
>  > > Distfile didn't uncompress (same failure last go, but it works for me...?)
>  > 
>  > The distfile violates the zip specification. Newer libarchive rejects
>  > the extra data, some other readers don't.
> 
> "be liberal in what you accept"? :-)

Actually, let me correct that. It contains an optional header entry, but
not enough space for the meta data. The other way around would be less
problematic.

> How do we force it to use e.g. pkgsrc unzip to extract?

Someone should just recreate the distfile. No point in working around
broken archives.

Joerg