Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:10:35 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to install -stable snap via FTP Message-ID: <20011029201035.F97313@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> In-Reply-To: <2226.1004297066@winston.freebsd.org>; from jkh@winston.freebsd.org on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:24:26AM -0800 References: <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk> <2226.1004297066@winston.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:24 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> Sysinstall doesn't verify checksums in transit (though that would be a
> cool feature). It's really a mystery as to why this is happening,
> unless something's broken in libfetch, since sysinstall didn't change
> with respect to this and every indication is that the code should Just
> Work(tm). If I ever get some time, I'll build a local release here
> and test-install it to see if I can instrument the problem at all.
I haven't checked and am ignorant w/ regards to sysinstall,
libfetch, etc. But could this be the kind of "error" which
sometimes can be seen on consoles, too, when you do some "tar
xzvf $ARCH"? I think of the one coming from internal block
sizes: tar recognizes the end of the archive and exits, while
the decompressor still wants to deliver some padding data (since
it's in the compressed file) and thus runs into some EPIPE
error. Having a quick look at the install archive format makes
me think ...
$ cd /home/cdrom/mounts/4.4-install.iso
$ cat bin/bin.aa | file -
standard input: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970, max compression, os: Unix
$ cat bin/bin.aa | gunzip | file -
standard input: GNU tar archive
Although "cat bin/bin.?? | tar tvzf -" (and the same for some
others, see the next (bash syntax) command) doesn't trigger this
"error" situation -- at least not visibly ...
FILES=`ls */*.aa`
for DIST in $FILES; do
export D=`dirname $DIST`
export F=`basename $DIST .aa`
(
echo $D/$F
cat ${D}/${F}.?? | tar tvzf - > /dev/null
) | less -MM -q
done
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