Bug 18376 – During install of realplayer8, binary data is reported as being corrupt and install fails

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Daniel Armyr 2003-03-28 11:10:39 UTC]

The dowloaded binary data ( noncorrupted ) is reported as being of unknown
format and is therefore not extracted properly to the temporary directory. All
subsequent steps of the install fail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the indicated binary data file
2. Copy to /usr/portage/distfiles
3. emerge realplayer

Actual Results:  
During the source unpacking, the 'unpack' program reports that the file to
unpack is wrong format, and therefore does not unpack the said data.

Expected Results:  
It should unpack the data so that the rest of the istallatio process succeeds. 

When running the binary file as a program installation works fine. However, the
hacks that allow direct unpacking of the data seem to be faulty. I have verified
that the file i provided is the one requested by comparing names, but I believe
there is no binary verification made.

[Comment 1 Daniel Armyr 2003-03-28 23:39:48 UTC]

Perhaps a change of the line
 unpack ${RP8_BIN} 
to
 unpack ${RP8_BIN} || die
would make the ebuild a little more userfriendly.

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-04-03 16:31:14 UTC]

hmm, I just tried this and it worked fine...

are you sure you downloaded the correct file?
-rw-r--r--    1 root  root      5.7M Apr  3 13:28 rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin

[Comment 3 Daniel Armyr 2003-04-05 00:31:00 UTC]

OK, from ls /usr/portage/distfiles/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5890331 Apr  5 13:24 rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin

From sudo emerge realplayer
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-8-r5 to /
x86
>>> md5 ;-) rv9_libc6_i386_cs2.tgz
x86
x86
>>> Unpacking source...
x86
tail: /usr/portage/distfiles/: Is a directory
x86
>>> Unpacking rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin to /var/tmp/portage/realplayer-8-r5/work
unpack rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin: file format not recognized. Ignoring.
>>> Source unpacked.
x86
 * Nothing to Compile, this is a binary package
x86

>>> Install realplayer-8-r5 into /var/tmp/portage/realplayer-8-r5/image/ category media-video
install: cannot stat `Codecs/*': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `Common/*': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `Plugins/ExtResources/*': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `Plugins/*.so.6.0': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `*.xpm': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `*.png': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `*.rm': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `rpnp.so': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `LICENSE': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `README': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `realplay': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `rp7.xpm': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `realplayer8.xpm': No such file or directory
man:
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/realplayer-8-r5/image/

[Comment 4 gatto 2003-09-04 17:56:40 UTC]

This bug happens because the strings in $A get transposed. See bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27968#c0

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-09-10 01:40:13 UTC]

liquidx fixed this