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Bug 96295

Summary: emerge xv failed in unpack section.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jeff Sheffield <jeff.sheffield>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) <taviso>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Jeff Sheffield 2005-06-16 11:04:18 UTC 
Here is what I got
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$ emerge xv 
>>> emerge ( 1 of 1) media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r11 to /
-- snip --
>>>Unpacking source ...
Unpacking /usr/porgage/distfiles/xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050110.tar.bz2 to 
/var/tmp/portage/xv-3.10a-r11/work
tar: this does not look like a tar archive.
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I made the following change which allowed the package to succesfuly install.
I (temporarly changed) the following line in /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh
--------------------------------------------------
> 383 old line > bzip2 -dc "${DESTDIR}/${x}" | tar -xf - ${tarvars} || die 
"$myfail"
> 383 new line > tar -jxvf "${DESTDIR}/${x}" || die "$myfail"
--------------------------------------------------
this change allowed me to succesfuly install the package.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
2. emerge xv
3.

Actual Results:  
Here is what I got
--------------------
$ emerge xv 
>>> emerge ( 1 of 1) media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r11 to /
-- snip --
>>>Unpacking source ...
Unpacking /usr/porgage/distfiles/xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050110.tar.bz2 to 
/var/tmp/portage/xv-3.10a-r11/work
tar: this does not look like a tar archive.


Expected Results:  
installed the package.

-------------------------------------
I made the following change which allowed the package to succesfuly install.
I (temporarly changed) the following line in /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh
--------------------------------------------------
> 383 old line > bzip2 -dc "${DESTDIR}/${x}" | tar -xf - ${tarvars} || die 
"$myfail"
> 383 new line > tar -jxvf "${DESTDIR}/${x}" || die "$myfail"
--------------------------------------------------
this change allowed me to succesfuly install the package.
Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-10 02:15:06 UTC 
does the md5 verify correctly? could this be a filesystem/disk error?
Comment 2 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-21 06:04:39 UTC 
Jeff, please reopen this bug if it's still an issue and you can provide more 
details.