Bug 317637

Summary:	media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427 has corrupt svgalib_helper
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Johns <vandon1>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Johns 2010-04-28 14:41:26 UTC

The svgalib_helper download link in the ebuild file is incorrect and does not point to any valid file. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="svga" emerge -v mplayer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> Unpacking svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.bz2 to /portage.tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427/work                                                                                            
bzip2: /portage.tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427/distdir/svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.                                                                              
tar: This does not look like a tar archive                                                               
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors                                                             
 * ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427 failed:                                                  
 *   failure unpacking svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.bz2

The svgalib_helper file contains:
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This bug is similar to Bug 279883, however I could not get the fix to work.
After downloading manually and changing the manifest file, it seemed to want the .gz file as well:

>>> Unpacking mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427.tar.bz2 to /portage.tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427/work                                                                                                
>>> Unpacking svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.bz2 to /portage.tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427/work                                                                                            
>>> Unpacking svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.gz to /portage.tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427/work

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-28 14:58:11 UTC

ah, finally a clear bug report about this. :)

there was a typo in the ebuild, fixed now, thanks