On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:37:26PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
> > > > $ file gnu/dist/texinfo/configure
> > > > gnu/dist/texinfo/configure: data
> > > 
> > > If that configure script is corrupt, then quite possibly other files
> > > are also corrupt, and perhaps that explains your difficulties.
> > 
> > I think it's a reason of files present in NetBSD FTP server. Try to
> > check this one and see that it actually contains binary configure
> > script. I fetched mine from:
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-4-0/tar_files/src/gnu.tar.gz
> > 
> > (other files also came from this directory)
> 
> Wow, that directory seems to contain files from the old netbsd-4 branch
> from some time in 2006.  The checksums match what you posted in your
> previous message.
> 
> The branch that will become NetBSD-4.0 is called "netbsd-4", and you can
> check it out from CVS by passing the "-r netbsd-4" option.  You can also
> fetch tar files from <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/>.

Thanks for this information. I read you decided to rebranch the tree,
but I don't follow NetBSD world with much detail. I need to remember to
trust CVS more..

> > /os/netbsd$ tar xzfv gnu.tar.gz src/gnu/dist/texinfo/configure
> > x src/gnu/dist/texinfo/configure
> > /os/netbsd$ file src/gnu/dist/texinfo/configure
> > src/gnu/dist/texinfo/configure: data
> 
> Yes, if I fetch the gnu.tar.gz that you mentioned and extract that file,
> the file contains binary junk.

Thanks for confirmation.

> > I'll try once again, with src tree taken directly from CVS. BTW, I
> > checked out src/gnu/dist/texinfo/configure and it's size is the same
> > as the one in the Tar archive present on the FTP server.
> 
> I can only assume that the tar.gz was made on a server that was
> suffering from disk or memory problems.

Could we do something about this. Will you have a chance to contact
person responsible for this directory to either update or delete it?

Thanks for response,

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek@FreeBSD.org
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/dunstan/