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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-02-22 16:20:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-02-22 16:20:00 -0400 |
| commit | b060e691acfada6868ce8c7d3a6f7787e2470771 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e5f23ee0546cd4118b517251f4044c6a9a95382 | |
| parent | d4107802bb77a14b3298719e87605f3a34d3905b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn index e59a69720..226eae85b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn @@ -41,6 +41,40 @@ The operation fails on these files with a "Checksum validation failed" error fro > complains, but the tarball is produced successfully. However, I do see actual > failures for 2.62 and 2.62.1, for instance. --[[smcv]] +> Yes, on Debian unstable I got failures on only old ones, but not in +> contiguous blocks: --[[Joey]] + +<pre> +ikiwiki_2.20.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.30.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.31.1.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.46.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.47.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.48.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.49.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.50.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.51.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.62.1.tar.gz +ikiwiki_2.62.tar.gz +</pre> + +> Probably what would help debug this problem is if someone can +> reproduce with one or more of the other ones that do **not** fail +> for me, pass `-dk` to pristine-tar, and send me a copy of its temp directory +> (joey@kitenet.net), and the versions of pristine-tar, tar, gzip. +> Then I can compare the good and bad recreated +> tarballs and identify the difference. Or pass them to the tar developers, +> who have helped before. +> +> The only cause that I can think of is that perhaps tar's output +> has changed compared with the version used to create those. The +> only tar output change I know of involved filenames that were +> exactly 100 bytes long -- and pristine-tar 1.11 works around that +> when run with tar 1.25-2 on Debian. FWIW, I am only seeing +> this in ikiwiki's pristine-tar info, not other packages'. +> (Checked all of debhelper's and alien's and etckeeper's +> and pristine-tar's tarballs.) --[[Joey]] + A complete output of the "pristine-tar checkout" of all files is stored on <https://gist.github.com/836720> . For now, I'll download the `.tar.gz` from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>, or maybe install `ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb`. Would you recommend using that `.deb` file on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, or is it Debian-specific? -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-21 08:42+0100 |