Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:38:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Bug in tar or ...? Message-ID: <199505221838.LAA04313@io.cts.com>
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I'm running -current as of 5/20. In attempting to install the
emacs-19.28.tgz package from freebsd.org using pkg_manage, I ran into
some problems:
1. pkg_manage does not remove older packages from the /var/db/pkg
directory (I wanted to emove emacs 19.27). I had to manually
delete that directory. (This has happened before)
2. pkg_manage reported that the emacs-19.28.tgz package required
93 MB to install (93xxx kB). This didn't sound right at all,
because 19.27 was roughly the same size and fit just fine.
(At first I though maybe it contained the sources, too).
3. pkg_add also reported not enough space to install it.
I decided to use 'tar tzvf' to inspect the tar file and noticed that
it had two entries for the emacs-19.28 binary, and began looping
with an apparently infinite listing of files. When I saw the same
library and elisp files listed for the third time, I knew something
was wrong.
The FTP transfer was without error. So I'm wondering if there is a
bug in tar in current on large archives, or if the package on
freebsd.org or my end is corrupted.
cksum gives me:
2453133443 27136131 emacs-19.28.tgz
P.S. pkg_manage's delete feature did not appear to remove anything
other than the emacs executable. The /usr/local/lib/emacs/19.27
directory and all the files remained following the pkg_manage delete
attempt.
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