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Subject: Re: Another 2.1.7 upgrade & no bin dist 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:33:03 PST."
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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:39:52 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > >   DEBUG: Parsing attributes file for distribution bin
> > >   DEBUG: Parse config: Invalid character 'P' at line 0
> > >   ...
> 
> Hm, unusual.  It's having trouble parsing the bin.inf file.  It looks okay
> on the 2.1.7 CD -- it matches the one on the 2.1.6 CD pretty closely.
> Make sure that the /cdrom/bin/bin.inf file looks okay, it should look like
> this (the first few lines):

I know this one - it's a bug which has been in sysinstall since day
one and it only happens occasionally, making it very hard to find
(some data being corrupted somewhere on the 1st pass, so when you
come through on the 2nd to install more stuff, blooie).

For 2.2.1, I finally just re-wrote all of that attribute code in
frustration at not being able to find the bug (and what I ended up
with was much nicer in the end) and I haven't seen it since.

					Jordan