Bug 81486

Summary:	kcminit complains about missing files in .tar
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Adrian von Buttlar <adrian+lists.bugs>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adrian von Buttlar 2005-02-10 05:16:20 UTC

>>> emerge (3 of 9) kde-base/kcminit-3.4.0_beta2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdebase-3.3.92.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Extracting from tarball...
tar: kdebase-3.3.92/configure.in.mid: Not found in archive
tar: kdebase-3.3.92/NEWS: Not found in archive
tar: kdebase-3.3.92/ChangeLog: Not found in archive
tar: kdebase-3.3.92/doc/kcminit: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>> Source unpacked.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-10 06:13:27 UTC

The generic unpack function tries to get these files, but they do not necessarily exist in every tarball. There's nothing wrong about it, we just can't supress them, since real error output would get lost as well.