Bug 57571

Summary:	Ebuild of linux-gazette fails because of trailing garbage in tarbas and bad md5 digests
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Anthony G. Basile <dante>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Mirror Admins <mirror-admin>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Anthony G. Basile 2004-07-19 06:28:28 UTC

When I try to emerge some of the linux-gazette doc files (those previous to volume 83), there are two problems: 1) the gunzip fails saying there's trailing garbage in the tarballs, and 2) the md5 sum fails.  I've fixed both problems but I would need to contact the maintainer to put it into the official archives.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.cd /usr/portage/app-doc/linux-gazette
2.emerge -v linux-gazette-80.ebuild
3.

Actual Results:  
Two builds try to emerge, linux-gazette-base-99 and linux-gazette-80.  The
second fails with "File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)".  If
one manually gunzips lg-issue80.tar.gz, one gets "gunzip: lg-issue80.tar.gz:
decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored."

Expected Results:  
It should unpack and install.

This problem can be fixed by manually gunzipping the distfile (in my example of
issue 80, this would be lg-issue80.tar.gz) and then re- gzipping it.  Then one
must edit /usr/portage/app-doc/linux-gazette/files/digest-linux-gazette-80 to
reflect the change.  I have written a script which has already done this to the
80 or so issues that were corrupt.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-19 10:15:59 UTC

original SRC_URI tarball is correct, the mirrors have a bad version

Comment 2 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-29 06:34:50 UTC

Looks good on the mirrors now.