Re: [gentoo-dev] grub problem

[Abhishek Kumar]

I have tried 'tar xjvf ' and pkgmerge too. It is the files in the /packages
directory of the cd that seem to be corrupt. Running file on them says data
file instead of compressed bzip2 file as it should. The sys.tbz2 file is OK.

Abhishek.
----- Original Message -----
From: <drobbins@g.o>
To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub problem


> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > >     Also, I am unable to decompress the stuff in the packages
directory on
> > >     the CD as they seem to be corrupt. Did nobody else come across
this? I
> > >     got the rc4_pre2 cd a couple of days after it was released.  I
hope I
> > >     was able to explain my situation. I will appreciate your help.
>
> > The packages are all tbz2 files, which means they are compressed w/
> > bzip2. You should use tar xjf rather than tar xzf to decompress them;
> > if you're just trying to install the packages, use portage-merge
> > <packagename>.tbz2 instead.
>
> Actually, "pkgmerge" is the command he should be using.  Maybe I need to
update
> the docs :/ :)
>
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