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Re: Archive anomalies [SOLVED]

 

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:32:02 -0500
Peter van der Does <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just ran into some anomalies on the Archive section of GetDeb. I'm
> not sure how many files are effected.
> 
> After extracting a .gz file, like a diff.gz for example, the
> extracted diff file was garbage and didn't show a normal diff.
> 
> It turns out you have to extract this file again, even though it
> doesn't have a gz extension.
> The best way is to rename the extract file with a gz extension again.
> 
> The same is true for orig.tar.gz files. You won't be able to use tar
> xzf for these files. You have to gunzip first, rename the file with
> the gz extension and you can use tar xf again.
> 
> To fix all the files on Getdeb, I don't even know which ones are
> effected, let alone how many, will be an quit a task. If anybody has
> an idea how we could automate this feel free to speak out. I myself
> will be thinking about a possible solution as well.
> 
> As Joao is extremely busy at the moment, we'll have to keep using this
> work around for now.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 

Thanks Joao for fixing this.

P.S. It was a server problem

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