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[cliff@aonix.co.uk: Re: tetex-base 2.0.2-13...]
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:58:02 +0200
- Subject: [cliff@aonix.co.uk: Re: tetex-base 2.0.2-13...]
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Jan,
did you notice this? He's right, I just tried to unpack the file.
Corinna
----- Forwarded message from Cliff Hones <cliff@aonix.co.uk> -----
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:50:18 +0100
> From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff@aonix.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: tetex-base 2.0.2-13...
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>
> Weiqi Gao wrote:
> > ...
> > I had the same problem. Doing a tar jtvf on the bzip2ed tar file
> > revealed that the download had an integrity problem:
> >
> > ============================================================
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root 18948 1997-12-26 17:00:00
> > usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/cmcyr/cmcbx12.pfb
> >
> > bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.
> > Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
> > ...
>
> You are right - it was an earlier version which I thought had
> got stuck during install. I have just checked the latest package
> file (from mirrors.rcn.net) and it does have a problem:
>
> $ bzcat tetex-base-2.0.2-13.tar.bz2 > /dev/null
> bzcat: Data integrity error when decompressing.
> Input file = tetex-base-2.0.2-13.tar.bz2, output file = (stdout)
>
> Perhaps the integrity of the package files should be routinely checked
> when they are added to the master distribution (at the same time the MD5
> signatures are calculated).
>
> -- Cliff
>
>
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