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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 14:14, Duncan wrote: |
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> The problem concisely is this: Certain binary packages say they are |
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> corrupt and refuse to install, altho the tbz2 seems to be fine as does the |
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> ebuild tacked onto the end. It's whatever other data is there that |
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> portage seems to be calling corrupt. |
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Try running the following on one of those broken packages. The command should |
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be on one line and bash...tbz2 should of course be replaced. |
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python -c 'import xpak; tbz2=xpak.tbz2("bash-3.0-r5.tbz2"); print |
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tbz2.getelements("CATEGORY")' |
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If it's empty, that's the problem. I had a lot of trouble following your |
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previous email. Would you be able to list step-by-step how to reproduce the |
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problem? |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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