Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:09:46 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> Cc: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ftp-bugs@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Weird tar problem with a port. Message-ID: <199810200809.BAA04588@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:51:25 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981020094735.21111A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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>> ftp> get perl5.tar >> local: perl5.tar remote: perl5.tar >> 200 PORT command successful. >> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'perl5.tar'. >> 226 Transfer complete. >> 1536 bytes received in 0.50 seconds (3.00 KB/s) >> ftp> quit >> 221 Goodbye! >> ports$ tar -xvf perl5.tar >> tar: Blocksize = 3 records >> perl5/ >> perl5/files/ >> perl5/files/md5 >> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file >> ports$ >> >> What's appening? I was in the pub/FreeBSD/ports/lang directory and >> downloaded the perl5 ports. > > I've seen this too, it happens with all port subdirectories, it just >returns a 1536 bytes ile, up to the content of the first file (usually >xxx/files/md5). > You should try getting the tree file by file, it seems that automatic >archiving of directories is broken for the moment on ftp.cdrom.com. Yes, it was broken for a few hours due to a missing include file in a new version of my ftpd that I was experimenting with (incorrect argument sizes were being passed to a system call). Anyway, the experimental code was also causing other problems, so I disabled it for the moment until I get things sorted out. Sorry for the problems. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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