Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:27:49 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Chan Tur Wei <twchan@singnet.com.sg> Cc: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>, Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>, Steve Bernard <sbernard@gmu.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages/INDEX on ftp.freebsd.org corrupted [was: Re: Has anybody been having problem with latest Snapshot for 4.3? (Release 4.3-20010718-STABLE)] Message-ID: <20010721142749.C19014@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010721142148.B5244-100000@zaapth.twnet.org>; from twchan@singnet.com.sg on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:36:42PM %2B0800 References: <007201c11140$c20a7950$1800a8c0@borges> <20010721142148.B5244-100000@zaapth.twnet.org>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:36:42PM +0800, Chan Tur Wei wrote: > I dug into this a little; the reason why sysinstall was dying was > that its stack had been smashed by a really bad INDEX in the ftp > sites. E.g. line 52 of INDEX, referring to the > p5-Astro-MoonPhase port, has its fields completely bonkers -- > extra fields, wrong data in the fields, etc. The wrong data > caused sysinstall to overwrite its stack and hence to die at weird > places. > > The INDEX that's in the CVS repository, however, is correct. > > Who should be fixing this problem? Sounds like a two pronger. 1) Jordan (or whomever is working in his stead) should fix sysinstall so it behaves correctly in the face of incorrect input data. 2) The owners of the ftp mirrors should force a resync of at least the INDEX file. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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